2022 – Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford

“Bringing Chemistry to Life”

2018 – Professor Emeritus Robert Glaeser, UC Berkeley, and Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

“The Revolution in Electron Cryo-Microscopy”

2017 – Professor William Gelbart, UCLA

“Viruses, from Self-Assembly to Vaccines”

2016 – Professor Michael Jung, UCLA

“Drug Discovery: From Bench to Market”

2015 – Nobel Laureate Professor Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute Göttingen

“New Physico-Chemical Tools for New Biology”

2014 – Fred Wudl and Linda Wudl, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Organic Materials and their Applications”

2013 – Professor Kendall Houk, UCLA

“Computation and Experiment: Collaborations for Chemical and Biochemical Discovery”

2012 – Nobel Laureate Dr. Harold Varmus, National Cancer Institute

“Can Scientists Make the World a Better Place through Discovery,
Dissemination, and Application of Knowledge?”

2011 – Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Heck, University of Delaware

“The Heck Reaction and Cross-Couplings”

2010 – Professor Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley

“Nucleic “Transcription, Stem Cells, and Differentiation”Acid Transactions and the Awesome Power of Structural Biology”

2009 – Professor Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Advanced Materials and Nano-Technology”

2008 – Professor Joan S. Valentine, UCLA

“Frontiers in Metallobiochemistry”

2007 – Dr. R. Stanley Williams, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

“Making and Using Functional Nanostructures”

2006 – Professor David A. Evans, Harvard University

“Frontiers in Chemical Synthesis”

2005 – Professor Ronald M. Evans, Salk Institute

“Nuclear Receptors and the Complex Journey to Obesity”

2004 – Professor David Eisenberg, UCLA

“Interacting Proteins”

2003 – Dr. Ad Bax, NIH and Professor Alex Pines, UC Berkeley

“Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine”

2003 – Dr. Ad Bax, NIH and Professor Alex Pines, UC Berkeley

“Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine

2002 – Nobel Laureate Professor Richard E. Smalley, Rice University

“The Science and Technology of Nanotubes”

2001 – Dr. James B. Peter, Specialty Laboratories

“Interrogating Cells in Health and Disease”

2000 – Professor Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., UC Berkeley

“Receptors and Human Health”

1999 – Dr. John P. McTague, Ford Research Laboratory

“Transportation & The Environment”

1998 – Nobel Laureate Professor Paul D. Boyer, UCLA

“Life’s Energy Currency: ATP Synthesis and Use”

1997 – Professor Frederick Hawthorne, UCLA

“The Role of Inorganic Chemistry in Medicine”

1996 – Dr. Mary L. Good, Under Secretary for Technology, US Dept of Commerce

1995 – Dr. George B. Rathmann, ICOS Corporation

1994 – Professor George S. Hammond, Allied Signal Corporation

1993 – Nobel Laureate Professor R. Bruce Merrifield, Rockefeller Unviersity

1992 – Dr. Ralph H. Bauer, Bauer Investments

1991 – Professor John D. Roberts, California Institute of Technology

1990 – Dr. George Gregory, Products Research and Chemical Corp.

1989 – Nobel Laureate Professor Donald J. Cram, UCLA

1988 – Dr. Warren W. Kaeding, Mobil Chemical

1987 – Nobel Laureate Professor Glenn T. Seaborg, University of California, Berkeley