the liversidge lecture program
The Liversidge Lecture
Archibald Liversidge was born in London in 1846. After becoming an associate (1867) at the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Chemistry, he matriculated Cambridge in 1870. In 1872, Liversidge came to Australia as 'Reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory' at the University of Sydney. In 1874 he was appointed Professor of Geology and Mineralogy and in 1882 became Professor of Mineralogy and Chemistry. Liversidge was appointed first Dean of Science at the University of Sydney (1882-1907) and was a Fellow of the Senate (1879-1904). He later became an Emeritus Professor of the University. Liversidge was Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales (1874-1884) and was a founder of ANZAAS (1888). Liversidge died in 1927 and bequeathed funds to support lectures in Chemistry at the University of Sydney.
Previous Liversidge Lecturers
| 1930 | A. Killen Macbeth (University of Adelaide) |
| 1934 | T.G.H. Hughes (University of Queensland) |
| 1938 | A. Findlay (University of Aberdeen) |
| 1938 | J.B. Speakman (University of Leeds) |
| 1949 | Sir Walter N. Haworth (University of Birmingham) |
| 1964 | J.C. Bailar Jr. (University of Illinois) |
| 1975 | A. James Ellis (DSIR, New Zealand) |
| 1976 | Sir Derek H.R. Barton (Imperial College, London) |
| 1977 | Brian N. Figgis (University of Western Australia) |
| 1978 | Stuart A. Rice (James Franck Institute, University of Chicago) |
| 1985 | Sir John W. Cornforth (University of Sussex) |
| 1986 | John W. White (Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University) |
| 1987 | Ernest R. Davidson (University of Indiana) |
| 1988 | Harry Gray (California Institute of Technology (Caltech)) |
| 1990 | Gordon Lowe (University of Oxford) |
| 1992 | Sir John M. Thomas (Royal Institution, UK) |
| 1992 | Sever Sternhell (University of Sydney) |
| 1993 | A. David Buckingham (University of Cambridge) |
| 1994 | Henry Taube (Stanford University) |
| 1995 | Robert G. Bergman (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 1996 | Dal Swaine (CSIRO Division of Coal and Energy Technology, Sydney) |
| 1996 | John Polyani (University of Toronto) |
| 1997 | M.L.H. Green (University of Oxford) |
| 2000 | Athelstan L. J. Beckwith (Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University) |
| 2001 | R. Stephen Berry (University of Chicago) |
| 2002 | Stephen F. Lincoln (University of Adelaide) |
| 2003 | J. Fraser Stoddart (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) |
| 2004 | Peter Stang (University of Utah) |
| 2007 | Jean-Marie Lehn (University of Strasbourg) |
| 2008 | Helmut Schwarz (Technical University Berlin) |
| 2010 | Wolfram Saenger (Freie Universitat, Berlin) |