visitors program archive

Date	Visiting Speaker
1973	Professor Linus Pauling (1901-1994) Professor of Chemistry Stanford University (then California Institute of Technology) Inauguration of the Foundation. Nobel Laureate for Chemistry in 1954; and for Peace in 1962
1974	Mr O.S. Mills Reader in Chemistry The University of Manchester Lecture series: Crystal structure analysis of organometallic compounds
1974	Professor Kenneth Raymond Department of Chemistry The University of California Berkeley Lecture series:
1975	Professor Barnett Rosenberg (1924-2009) Michigan State University (1961 to 1997) Distinguished Visiting Professor: Metals in medicine conference
1976	Professor Yoshihiko Saito The University of Tokyo Lecture series: Neutron diffraction
1976	Professor Thomas J. Meyer University of North Carolina Durham, North Carolina Lecture series: Inorganic reactions mechanisms
1977	Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, FRS and Nobel Laureate (1921-1996) Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Imperial College London Distinguished visiting Professor
1977	Professor Bryce Bosnich Department of Chemistry University of Toronto, Canada
1977	Professor Peter Pauson University of Strathclyde Glasgow Lecture: Ferrocene
1977	Professor Sir Rutherford Robertson, CMG, DSc, FRS (1913-2001) Director Research School of Biological Sciences Guest speaker at AGM at which the late Hans Freeman announced the major break-through in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry which was the structure of plastocyanin had been determined for the first time. Australian National University
1978	Professor Bruce G. Hyde University of Western Australia (until 1978)
1978	Professor A.B.P. Lever York University Canada Lecture series: Inorganic spectroscopy (Normalised spherical harmonic hamiltonians)
1979	Professor David M. Adams The Department of Chemistry The University of Leicester United Kingdom Lecture series: Spectroscopic properties of inorganic and organometallic solids
1979	Professor Tom L. Blundell Department of Crystallography Birkbeck College University of London Lecture series: Evolution and devolution of zinc-binding site in insulin
1980	Dr Peter Day Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry University of Oxford United Kingdom Lecture series:
1980	Professor Donald Langmuir Professor of Geochemistry The Colorado School of Mines Lecture series: The in situ leaching of uranium ores
1981	Dr Malcolm Gerloch Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge United Kingdom Lecture series: A local view of magnetochemistry
1981	Dr Benno P. Schoenborn Brookhaven National Laboratory New York, USA Lecture series: Applications of neutron scattering in biology
1981	Dr Lucille S. Hurley (1922-1988) Professor of Nutrition University of California Davis Lectures: Nutritional trace element deficiencies
1981	Professor Rainer Mattes Department of Inorganic Chemistry University of Muenster, Germany Lecture series: Inorganic cluster compounds
1982	Professor Gilbert P. Haight, Jr Department of Chemistry University of Illinois Lecture series: Inorganic reaction mechanisms
1982	Dr Bert L. Vallee Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences Harvard Medical School, USA Lectures: Recent excitement about zinc biochemistry and metabolism and Alcohol dehydrogenase(s) and alcohol(ism)
1983	Professor Max Brennan Dinner address
1983	Professor J.W. Robinson Dinner address
1983	Professor A. Geoffrey Sykes (1934-2007) Inaugural Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Department of Chemistry University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Lecture series: Inorganic reaction mechanisms Jointly with the Royal Society of London
1984	Professor B. Jennings (1930-2010) Department of Physics Brunel University
1984	Professor Michael Levitt Department of Chemical Physics The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehoboth, Israel Lecture series: Protein structure and dynamics
1985	Professor Robin J. Clark Department of Chemistry University of London United Kingdom Lecture series: Applications to inorganic chemistry
1985	Dr Patricia L. Watson Research Chemistry Du Pont Research and Development Department of Wilmington Delaware, USA Lecture: Synthesis and methods in protein characterisation and structure development - Jointly with USYD Institute of Biophysics
1985	Dr Glyn Williams Department of Chemistry University College London Lecture series: Magnetic methods in protein characterisation and structure development - Jointly with USYD Institute of Biophysics
1986	Professor R.L. Martin ASTEC, and Vice Chancellor Monash University Addressed AGM
1987	Dr Ninian J. Blackburn Department of Inorganic Chemistry Institute of Science and Technology University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom Lecture series: Modern spectroscopic methods and their applications to the study of metalloproteins
1987	Professor Hu L. Barnes College of Earth and Mineral Science Pennsylvania State University USA Lecture series: Kinetics and crystallisation of ubiquitous iron sulfides
1988	Professor John A. Osborn Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Director of the CRNS Unit The Universite Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, France Lecture series: High oxidation state organometallic chemistry
1988	Professor Harry B. Gray Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Beckman Institute California Institute of Technology, USA Short-term visitor and Liversidge Lecturer.
1989	Professor Thomas G. Spiro Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Princeton University, New Jersey, USA Lecture series: Hemoglobin structure and dynamics from resonance Raman spectroscopy
1989	Professor T.G. Traylor Department of Chemistry University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA Lecture: Picosecond studies of geminate recombination in metal-ligand reactions
1990	Professor James A. Ibers (FAAAS, FNAS) Morrison Professor of Chemistry Northwestern University Illinois Lecture series: Inorganic synthetic and solid state chemistry
1990	Professor B. Hendrickson Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego USA
1991	Professor J. Atwood University of Alabama Lecture series: Bioinorganic models based on calixerenes
1991	Dr Ken F. Gadd Science Coordinator The "Wessex Project" Yeovill College United Kingdom Lectures: Bioinorganic models based on calixerenes
1992	Professor J. Arnold Koningstein Department of Chemistry Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario Canadia Lecture series: Time-resolved spectroscopy of biological and other metal complexes
1992	Professor Leon Kane-Maguire (1942-2011) Department of Chemistry University of Wollongong Lecture series: Chiral transition metal compounds and their use in asymmetric synthesis
1993	Professor Christopher A. Reed Chemistry Department University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA Lecture series: 1. Bio-inorganic chemistry: Hemoglobin and cytochromes 2. The search for the least nucleophilic anion 3. Fullerines and fullerides
1993	Professor Malcolm Chisholm, FRS Department of Chemistry Indiana University, Ohio 1978 - 1999 Lecture series: 1. Metal-metal and metal-ligand multiple bonds 2. Molecular design and molecular destruction
1994	Dr Graham N. George and Dr I. Pickering Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Stanford University, California, USA Lecture series: EXAFS spectroscopy
1994	Professor Anthony K. Cheetham, FRS (elected 1994) The Royal Institution The University of California, San Diego, USA Lecture series: Sorbate behaviour in Faujasite-type zeolites
1995	Dr P.A. (Tony) Cox University Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry University of Oxford Lecture series: Surface science of inorganic solids
1995	Professor Tom M. O'Halloran Northwestern University Lecture series: Metal receptors in biology
1996	Professor David M. Dooley Professor of Chemistry and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry Montana State University Lecture series: Modern spectroscopic techniques in inorganic chemistry
1996	Professor Nicholas P. Farrell Department of Chemistry The Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia, USA Lecture series: Metals in medicine - New directions
1997	Professor Brigid R. Heywood Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, and Director of the Birchall Centre for Inorganic Chemistry and Material Science Keele University Lecture series: Biomineralisation: Crystal engineering of solid-state materials
1997	Professor Peter A. Tasker Professor of Industrial Chemistry Inaugural Chair of Inorganic Chemistry University of Edinburgh Lecture series: Coordination chemistry at work: Novel industrial processes for metal production and use
1998	Professor Alex McAuley Department of Inorganic Chemistry University of Victoria, Canada Lecture series: Recent developments in the coordination chemistry of nickel: From fluorescence switching to hydrogenase
1998	Professor Dermot O'Hare Department of Inorganic Chemistry University of Oxford, UK Lecture series: "Inorganic materials" studying solid-state reactions with real-time in situ powder diffraction
1999	Professor Daryle Busch President ACS Department of Chemistry University of Kansas Lecture series: The compleat coordination chemistry: Special functions for complexes with tight-binding and weak-binding ligands
1999	Professor Peter J. Sadler, FRS Department of Chemistry University of Edinburgh Lecture series: Medicinal inorganic chemistry and NMR spectroscopy
2000	Professor S. David Garner, FRS Professor of Biological Inorganic Chemistry Department of Chemistry University of Nottingham, UK Lecture series: Biological inorganic chemistry
2000	Professor Glen Deacon Department of Chemistry Monash University Lecture series: Rare Earth chemistry
2001	Professor Warren Roper, FRS Research Professor of Chemistry University of Auckland Lecture series: The chemistry of the metal-carbon triple bond
2001	Professor Galen D. Stucky, FAAAS The Materials Research Laboratory University of California Santa Barbara, USA Lecture series: Inorganic materials chemistry
2002	Professor Wim Buijs Senior Researcher DSM Research Holland Lecture series: Base chemicals and catalysis
2002	Professor Ian G. Dance, FAA Professor of Inorganic Chemistry University of New South Wales Lecture series: Intermolecular interactions between diverse inorganic molecules
2003	Professor T.S. Andy Hor Head Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore Lecture series: Organotransition metals in homogeneous catalysis
2003	Professor Duncan Bruce University of Exeter, UK Lecture series: Molecular materials chemistry
2004	Professor Karl E. Wieghardt Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany Lecture series: Coordination chemistry with organic radicals in biology and inorganic chemistry
2004	Professor Brice Bosnich, FRS University of Chicago, Illinois, USA Lecture series: Supramolecular chemistry https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/bosnich-b
2005	Professor Alan M. Bond, FAA Monash University, Victoria, Australia Lecture: Broadening electrochemical horizons: Advances in chemical knowledge achieved by use of modern electrochemical techniques
2005	Professor J. Penner-Hahn University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA Lecture series: A critical look at the past accomplishments and future prospects of X-ray spectroscopy
2006	Professor Edwin C. Constable Department of Chemistry University of Basel Switzerland Lecture series: Reactivity of coordinated ligands
2006	Professor Christopher E.R. Orvig Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Director of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Group Department of Chemistry University of British Columbia, Canada Lecture series: Medicinal inorganic chemistry - a short course
2007	Professor Nicholas E. Dixon Professor of Biological Chemistry Department of Chemistry University of Wollongong Lecture series: Metalloenzyme structures and mechanisms
2007	Associate Professor Patrick M. Woodward Department of Chemistry Ohio State University, USA Lecture series: Functional perovskites: Structure, bonding and properties
2008	Professor Peter Williams Professor of Chemistry School of Natural Sciences University of Western Sydney Lecture series: The limits of inorganic chemistry in the natural environment
2008	Professor Des R. Richardson Bosch Institute and Department of Pathology The University of Sydney Lecture series: The bioinorganic chemistry of iron: The metals of life
2009	Professor Istvan T. Horvath Institute of Chemistry Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary Lecture series: Green chemistry: In environmentally friendly product and process development
2009	Dr Adrian (Adi) Paterson Chief Executive Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Address dinner
2010	Professor Merlin Crossley Dean of Science University of New South Wales and Professor Trevor Hambley Dean of Science University of Sydney Lecture: The Science Forum - Discussion on future directions and possible collaborations
2010	Professor Mary O'Kane Inaugural New South Wales chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer Addressed dinner Symposium on ……..
2011	Professor Margaret Sheil Chief Executive Officer The Australian Research Council Lecture series: Commonwealth grant schemes
2011	Professor Harry B. Gray Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Beckman Institute, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering & Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology Lecture series: Electron Flow through Metalloproteins: A Tribute to Hans Freeman, AM FAA For more information please visit the 2011 inorganic & bioinorganic symposia
2012	Professor Ed Solomon Department of Chemistry Stanford University, USA Host: Dr Deanna D'Alessandro Foundation for Inorganic Chemistry Lectures: 17 and 26 October, 2012 Hans C. Freeman Lecture: 23 October, 2012. Group photo can be viewed here.
2013 AGM/Dinner 27 March	Professor Margaret Harding Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Australian National University Foundation for Inorganic Chemistry Speaker at the AGM/Dinner on 27 March 2013.
2013	Professor Ken Raymond Chancellor's Professor University of California, Berkeley Foundation for Inorganic Chemistry Lecture series: September 2013 (to be confirmed)

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