The Freeman Lectureships
The Freeman Lecture is sponsored by the Jeremiah P. Freeman Organic Synthesis Lectureship Endowment, with support from Notre Dame's Nieuwland Lectures, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the College of Science. Freeman received his bachelor's degree in 1950 from the University of Notre Dame and earned masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois in 1951 and 1953, respectively. He began his career with the chemistry group at the Redstone Arsenal Research Division of the Rohm and Haas Company before returning to Notre Dame in 1964 to join the organic chemistry faculty. While at Notre Dame, Freeman served as assistant chair then chair of the department from 1965 to 1979 and as associate dean of the College of Science from 1988 to 1991. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow from 1966 to 1968, and he served as secretary-treasurer, and later chair, of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society from 1969 to 1975. He was elected secretary of Organic Synthesis Inc. in 1979 and served in that capacity until 2004. During that time, he edited four of the publication's five-year collective volumes and assembled a cumulative index of the first eight volumes. Freeman's research interests were focused on the area of organic nitrogen compounds, particularly those containing nitrogen in intermediate oxidation states, such as nitrones, nitrimines, and nitroso compounds.
| Year | Lecturer | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Margaret Brimble | University of Auckland |
| 2021 | John Wood | Baylor University |
| 2018 | Vy Dong | University of California - Irvine |
| 2016 | Anna Mapp | University of Michigan |
| 2015 | Rick Danheiser | Massachusetts Institue of Technology |
| 2014 | Marvin Miller | University of Notre Dame |
| 2013 | Andrew Holmes | University of Melbourne |
| 2011 | Karl Scheidt | Northwestern University |
| 2011 | Erick Carreira | ETH Zurich |
| 2010 | John Macor | Bristol Myers Squibb |
| 2009 | Kendall Houck | University of California - Los Angeles |
| 2008 | Jan Backvall | Stockholm University |
| 2006 | Samuel Danishefsky | Sloan Kettering Institute |
| 2006 | K. Barry Sharpless | The Scripps Research Institute |
| 2004 | Per-Ola Norrby | University of Gothenburg |