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2007 - No Leermakers Program is planned for
this year.
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The next Leermakers Program will
be planned for May 2008,
please check back next year for more event details. |
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2006 "Challenges to Chemistry from
Other Sciences"
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Speaker
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Affiliation
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Title |
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Prof. Michael
Frenklach |
Department
of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley |
"Reaction mechanism of carbon formation: from Bunsen burner to Diesel
engine" |
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Prof. Klavs
Jensen |
Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Chemical and Biological Microsystems -
Revolutionizing the Laboratory" |
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Prof. Mark Reed |
Department
of Electrical Engineering, Yale University |
"Atomic and Molecular Scale
Electronic Transport" |
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Prof.
Greg Rutledge |
Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"The Chemistry of Polymer Engineering" |
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Prof.
Kristen Sellgren |
Astronomy Department,
Ohio State University |
"Dust and Gas Between The Stars: Challenges in
Interstellar Astrochemistry" |
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Prof.
Harel Weinstein |
Department of Physiology & Biophysics,
Weill
Medical College of Cornell University |
"Analysis of Cell Function: Where Chemistry
Meets Systems Biology" |
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2005 "Chirality"
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Speaker
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Affiliation
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Title |
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Prof.
Geoffrey W. Coates |
Cornell University |
"New Catalysts for Constructing Small Molecules and Polymers of
Defined Stereochemistry"
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Prof. David A. Evans |
Harvard University |
"From Crystal Structures to Chiral
Catalysts" |
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Dr. Michael J. Frisch |
Wesleyan University and Gaussian, Inc. |
"Spectroscopy of Chiral Molecules" |
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Dr. Edward J. J. Grabowski |
Merck Research Laboratories |
"Novel Asymmetric Hydrogenations" |
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Prof.
Kendall N. Houk |
University of California, Los Angeles |
"Theory and Modeling of Stereoselectivity" |
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Prof.
Eric N. Jacobsen |
Harvard University |
"Seeking General Asymmetric Catalysts" |
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2004 "The Molecular Basis of Materials Science" |
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Speaker
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Affiliation
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Title |
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Dr.
A. Paul Alivisatos |
University of California, Berkeley |
"Nanocrystals as a New Class of
Macromolecules" |
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Dr. Robert R. Birge |
University of Connecticut |
"Protein-Based Memories and Associative Processors" |
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Dr. Paul C. Canfield |
Iowa State University |
"Energy Scales and Strangers Tales: The Physics of New
Materials" |
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Dr. Tobin J. Marks |
Northwestern University |
"Self-Assembly Routes to Nanoscale Photonic and Electronic
Structures and Devices" |
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Dr. George M. Whitesides |
Harvard University |
"Dynamic Self-Assembly" |
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2003 "Metals in Medicine" |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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Dr. Peter
C. Preusch |
National
Institutes of Health, NIGMS |
"Biomedical
Significance and Inorganic Chemistry"
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Dr. Dennis P. Riley |
MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
"Functional
Mimetics of Superoxide Dismutase Enzymes as Human Pharmaceuticals" |
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Prof. Jonathan L. Sessler |
University of
Texas at Austin |
"Expanded
Porphyrins and Therapeutic Leads" |
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Dr. Randall B. Lauffer |
EPIX Medical, Inc. |
"Biophysical Tuning and Targeting of
Gadolinium Chelates for MRI"
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Prof. Christopher Orvig |
University of British
Columbia |
"Insulin-Enhancing
Vanadium Compounds" |
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Prof. Stephen J. Lippard |
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology |
"Chemical
and Biological Studies of Platinum Anticancer Drugs" |
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2002 "Perspective in Chemistry" |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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Prof.
Harry H. Wasserman |
Yale
University |
"Natural
Product Synthesis as a Matrix for
Testing New Methodology.
Polycarbonyl Chemistry" |
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Prof. Robert H. Grubbs |
California Institute of
Technology |
"Catalysts for the
Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules"
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Professor Cynthia M. Friend |
Harvard
University
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"New
Frontiers in Nanoscale Materials: Growth, Structure and Reactivity" |
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Prof. Henry F. Schaefer |
University of Georgia |
"Molecular Anions: A Wealth of Important,
Uncharacterized Systems. From Diatomics to
DNA Base Pairs and Beyond" |
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Prof. Gregory F. Petsko |
Brandeis University |
"The
Birth and Development of Structural Enzymology" |
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Prof. Ronald C. D. Breslow |
Columbia University |
"Bioorganic
Chemistry" |
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2001 "The Ribosome: Chemistry and Structural Biology" |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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Prof. Joachim Frank |
State University of New York at Albany |
The Ribosome - A Molecular Machine in Motion as Seen by
Cryo-Electron Microscopy |
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Prof. Jamie H. D. Cate |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Structure and Function of the Ribosome |
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Dr. Brian T. Wimberly |
Pharmacia Corporation |
The Small Ribosomal Subunit: High-Resolution Structure and
Interactions with Antibiotics |
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Prof. Peter B. Moore |
Yale University |
Structure and Function in the Large Ribosomal Subunit |
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Prof. Rachel Green |
Johns Hopkins University |
A Functional Dissection of Ribosomal Translocation |
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Prof. David E. Drapper |
Johns Hopkins University |
RNA Tertiary Folding and Protein Recognition in a Corner of the Ribosome |
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2000 "Where Chemistry Meets Art and
Archeology" |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
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Prof. Dudley Herschbach |
Harvard University |
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Dr. Walter McCrone |
McCrone Research Institute |
Authenticating Paintings: The Shroud of Turin |
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Prof. Joseph B. Lambert |
Northwestern University |
Organic Materials as Archaeological Artifacts |
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Prof. Nikolaas Van Der Merwe |
Harvard University |
Archeometry: Prehistoric Diets via Isotope Analysis |
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Dr. Barbara Berrie |
National Gallery of Art |
Art and Chemistry: Two Ways of Seeing |
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Prof. R. J. H. Clark |
University College, London |
Raman Microscopy: Its Application to the Identification of Pigments on
Manuscripts, Paintings and other Artifacts |
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Prof. Wilfred N. Arnold |
University of Kansas Medical Center |
Vincent van Gogh: Chemicals, Crises and Creativity |
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1999 "Modern Natural Products
Chemistry:
A Symposium in Honor of Satoshi Omura" |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
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Prof. Satoshi Omura |
Kitasato Institute |
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Prof. Amos B. Smith, III |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Prof. Peter Jacobi |
Dartmouth College |
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Prof. K. Barry Sharpless |
Scripts Research Institute |
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Dr. Suan Rohrer |
Merck Research Laboratories |
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1998 "Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate
in a Changing Global Environment" |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
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David W. Fahey |
National Oceanographic & Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) |
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Jamers G. Anderson |
Harvard University |
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John H. Seinfeld |
California Institute of Technology |
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Karl K. Turekian |
Yale University |
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Wallace S. Broecker |
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia |
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Steven C. Wofsy |
Harvard University |
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1997 "Extraterrestrial
Chemistry & Biology" |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
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Ralph Harvey |
Case Western Reserve
University |
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William Klemperer |
Harvard University |
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Leslie E. Orgel |
Salk Institute for
Biological Studies |
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William J. Schopf |
University of California
at Los Angeles |
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Patrick Thaddeus |
Harvard
University-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysicis |
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Richard N. Zare |
Stanford University |
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1996 "FRONTIERS
OF THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY: A Tribute to John A. Pople |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
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Brunger, Axel T. |
Yale University |
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Buckingham, A. David |
University of Cambridge |
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Pople, John A. |
Northwestern University |
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Raghavachari, Krishnan |
AT&T Bell Laboratories |
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Stillinger, Frank H. |
AT&T Bell
Laboratories |
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Wiberg, Kenneth B. |
Yale University |
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1995 "FRONTIERS
& FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN CHEMISTRY" |
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
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Neil Bartlett
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University of California,
Berkeley |
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Joshua S. Boger
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
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Thomas C Bruice. |
University of California,
Santa Barbara |
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Martin Karplus |
Harvard University |
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Kurt Wüthrich |
ETH, Zurich |
| Ahmed H. Zewail
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California Institute of
Technology |
