The Nieuwland Lectureships
The Nieuwland Lectureships were established in 1943 by Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, C.S.C., then President of the University of Notre Dame, as a permanent memorial to the late Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland, C.S.C. Rev. Nieuwland was born in Hansbeke, Belgium in 1878. He earned an A.B. at the University of Notre Dame in 1899 and a Ph.D. in chemistry at Catholic University, Washington, D.C. in 1904. He joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 1904, and he was a professor of organic chemistry from 1918 until his death in 1936.
Nieuwland's career as a chemist was devoted largely to the study of acetylene and its reactions. He developed the basic chemistry which led to the synthesis of neoprene, the first practically useful synthetic chemistry elastomer, and he discovered and explored a variety of catalytic processes in acetylene chemistry. Rev. Nieuwland was awarded the Nichols Medal of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society in 1935. He also received many other honors and distinctions.
| Year | Lecturer | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Roy Parker | University of Colorado |
| 2019 | Matthew Francis | University of California-Berkeley |
| 2018 | Ronald Breaker | Yale University |
| 2016 | Clark R. Landis | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2015 | Mark A. Johnson | Yale University |
| 2015 | Gunda I. George | University of Minnesota |
| 2013 | Joe W. Gray | Oregon Health & Science University |
| 2013 | David Milstein | The Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 2012 | Peidong Yang | University of California - Berkeley |
| 2010 | Michael A. Marletta | University of California - Berkeley |
| 2010 | Chi-Huey Wong | National Taiwan University |
| 2009 | Jeffrey W. Kelly | The Scripps Research Institute |
| 2007 | A. Paul Alivisatos | University of California - Berkeley |
| 2007 | Dale L. Boger | The Scripps Research Institute |
| 2006 | Christopher T. Walsh | Harvard Medical School |
| 2006 | Jean-Marie Lehn | ISIS, Universite Louis Pasteur Strasbourg |
| 2004 | Sunny Xie | Harvard University |
| 2002 | Fraser Stoddart | University of California - Los Angeles |
| 2001 | John E. Bercaw | California Institute of Technology |
| 2000 | Peter B. Moore | Yale University |
| 1999 | Mostafa El-Sayed | Georgia Institute of Technology |