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1980
- September 18 -
Kurt Rorig
(G.D. Searle)
"Drug Discovery and Design - An Historical Approach to the Strategy of Modern Drug Design"
- October 24 -
John Montgomery
(Southern Research Institute)
"Current Status of Cancer Chemotherapy"
- November 21 -
Barry Trost
(University of Wisconsin at Madison)
"Selectivity in Organic Synthesis"
- December 12 -
Gregg Peters
(Magician)
1981
January 23 -
Poster Session (Loyola University)
February 20 -
Donald Lynn
(Voyager Project-JPL)
"Voyager 1 encounter with Saturn"
March 25 -
A.M. Weinberg
(Institute of Energy Analysis - Oak Ridge Associated Universities)
"The Future of Nuclear Energy"
April 10 -
Mahendra Sandesara
(Chemical Waste Management)
"Handling and Disposal of Hazardous Waste Materials"
May 15 -
GIBBS AWARD
Bert L. Vallee
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Zinc and the Emergence of Metallobiochemistry"
June 19 -
Derek Davenport
(Purdue University)
"Agreeing to Disagree: The Bohr-Einstein Correspondence"
September 25 -
Christopher Hill
(Fermi Lab)
"The Periodic Table of Elementary Particles"
October 23 -
Elizabeth K. Weisburger
(NIH)
"Not all Carcinogens are created by Chemists"
November 13 -
Alan G. MacDiarmid
(University of Pennsylvannia)
"Metallic and Semi Conducting Covalent Polymers: Polyacetylene (CH)X and its Derivatives"
December 18 -
Gilan School of Scottish Dance
1982
January 22 -
Poster Session (Loyola University)
February 19 -
John F. McKay
(DOE)
"Recovery of Organic Matter from Green River Oil Shale using Supercritical Fluids"
March 25 -
David N. Hume
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Blood Alcohol Measurement and the Determination of Intoxication"
April 22 -
Timothy C. Hall
(Agrigenetics)
"Potential Application of Recombinant DNA technology in Agriculture"
May 21 -
GIBBS AWARD
Gilbert Stork
(Columbia University)
"Interaction: Chemical and otherwise"
June 24 -
Marjorie C. Caserio
(University of California - Irvine)
"Chemists and Chemical Information"
September 24 - Benjamin Perillo (Lab Chief, DEA)
"The Role of the Forensic Chemist in Clandestine Labs"
October 22 - Fred Basolo (Northwestern University)
"Mechanisms of Reaction Carbonyls"
November 19 - Yoshito Kishsi (Harvard University)
"Stereochemistry of Palytoxin"
December 17 - Clarence Menninga (Calvin College)
"Eruption of Mt. St. Helen's"
1983
January 21 - Poster Session (Loyola University)
February 25 - Franklin Long (Cornell University)
"In Defense of Activism"
March 25 - Norman V. Steere (Consultant)
"Managing Chemical Hazards in Laboratories"
April 22 - Jan Fawcett (Rush Medical College)
"The Chemistry of Mind-Altering Drugs"
May 20 - John D. Roberts (California Institute of Technology)
"Down the Rapids with NMR"
June 24 - Panel Discussion (McKinley, Bearman and Ichniowski)
"Cooperative Education - The Payoff for Chemists"
September 21 -
Warren Schmaus (Illinois Institute of Technology) Naomi Aronson (Northwestern U.)
"Fraud and Honesty in Science"
October 21 -
George S. Hammond
(Allied Signal Corporation - Integrated Chemical Systems)
"Application of Chemistry to Produce Things Other Than Chemicals"
November 18 -
Lenore G. Randall Frank
(Hewlett-Packard)
"An Overview of Supercritical Fluid Chromatography"
December 15 -
Max Gergel
(Allen University Sc.)
"Thirty-Five Years Running a Small Chemical Company, and the Interesting People One Meets"
1984
January 20 -
Poster Session (Loyola University)
February 14 -
Robert H. Mazur
(G.D. Searle + Company)
"Asparthame - A New Sweetener"
March 23 -
Ananda Chakrabarty
(University of Illinois)
"Genetics and Ecological Approaches to the Problems of Toxic Chemical Pollution"
April 27 -
Panel Discussion
Moderator - Martin Siegal
"Hazardous Waste Management, Disposal and Regulations"
May 18 -
GIBBS AWARD
Elias J. Corey
(Harvard University)
"Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and other Eicosanoids"
June 22 -
Henry A. Bent
(North Carolina State University)
"The First Course in Chemistry and the ACS"
September 21 -
David C. Boyd
(Corning Glass Works)
"Creating Glasses with Precise Colors"
October -
Malcolm H. Chisholm
(Indiana University)
"Metal-Metal Multiple Bonds: Inorganic Functional Groups"
November 16 -
W. Clark Still
(Columbia University)
"Recent Results in Organic Synthesis"
December 14 -
Joseph Nagyvary
(Texas A&M University)
"Chemistry of the Great Violins"
1985
January 25 -
Poster Session
February 22 -
Valdas V. Adamkus
(EPA, Region V)
"Toxicants in the Great Lakes"
March 22 -
Emanuel Margoleish
(Northwestern University)
"Cytochrome C & Electron Transport Proteins"
April 19 -
Martin F. Semmelhack
(Princeton University)
"Developing of Transition Metal Reagents for Organic Synthesis"
May 17 -
GIBBS AWARD
Donald J. Cram
(UCLA)
"Molecular Cells, their Guests, Portals and Behavior"
June 21 -
Cyril Ponnamperuma
(University of Maryland)
"Chemical Origins of Life"
September 20 -
SKY SHOW (Adler Planetarium)
"Return of Halley's Comet"
October 25 -
James A. McCloskey
(University of Utah)
"Microscale Structure Elucidation by Mass Spectrometry"
November 22 -
John Veradke
(Iowa State University)
"Hypervalency and its Meaning for Your Life"
December 13 -
John Brenell (Magician)
1986
January 24 -
Carl Moore
(Loyola University of Chicago)
"The Origins of Electrochemistry from an Historical Perspective"
February 21 -
Robert West
(University of Wisconsin)
"Chemistry of the Silicon-silicon Double Bond""
March 21 -
Jon Van
(Chicago Tribune - Science Writer)
"How Scientists and Science Writers can work together"
April 18 -
Janet Rowley
(University of Chicago)
"Chromosome Abnormalities and Human Cancer Genes"
May 23 -
GIBBS AWARD
Jack Halpern
(University of Chicago)
"Organometallic Chemistry in Biology: The Role of
Vitamin B12
June 20 -
George Brubraker
Illinois Institute of Technology
"Computer Literacy for students in Mathematics and the Sciences"
September 19 -
Russell P. Sherwin
(University of Southern California School of Medicine)
"Cell Societies and Human Health"
October 24 -
Mel Schabilion
(DEA)
"Experiences of an Undercover Narcotics Agent"
November 21 -
Paul Lauterbur
(University of Illinois - Chicago)
"Microscopic NMR Imaging"
December 12 -
Marvin C. Lang, Donald L. Showalter and Gary Shulfer
(University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point)
"Yes Virginia, Chemistry Can be Fun"
1987
January 23 -
Kenneth L. Rinehart
(University of Illinois-Urbana)
"Biologically Active Compounds from Marine Sources"
February 20 -
Edward S. Olson
(Field Museum of Natural History)
"Meteorites: A Poor Man's Space Probe"
March 20 -
Etcyl Blair
(Consultant)
"What the Past tells us about the Future"
April 24 -
Francis Zenie
(Zymark Corporation)
"Strategic Trends in Laboratory Automation"
May 22 -
GIBBS AWARD
Allen J. Bard
(University of Texas)
"Solar Energy Conversion through Photoelectrochemistry at Semiconductors"
June 19 -
Leo McCloskey
(Felton-Empire Vineyards)
"Wine Phenolics and Wine Tasting"
September 18 -
Harold Scheraga
(Cornell University)
"Conformation Energy Calculations on Polypeptides and Proteins"
October 23 -
V.J. Shiner, Jr.
(Indiana University)
"New Studies of Solvolysis"
November 20 -
Fred McLafferty
(Cornell University)
"Neutralization-Reionization Mass Spectrometry"
December 11 -
Jack Stocker
(University of New Orleans)
"CHEMAGE: A Compendium of Chemical Trivia"
1988
January 22 -
Bruce Merrifield
(Rockefeller University)
"Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis"
February 19 -
Leon Lederman
(Fermi Lab)
"Supernova, Superconductors and the Super Collider"
March 25 -
Bryant Rossiter
(Viratek, Inc.)
"Chemistry, the Mother Science: A Solver of Problems and Hope of the World"
April 22 -
Kosta Tsipis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Ways Out of Our Nuclear Predicament"
May 20 -
GIBBS AWARD
Rudolph A. Marcus
(California Institute of Technology)
"Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry: Theory and Experiment"
June 24 -
Truman Schwartz
(Macalester College)
"The Ultimate Synthetic Problem: Making Gold for Fun and Profit"
September 16 -
Graham J. Durant
(Toledo University)
"The Discovery of Cimetidine (Tagmant) and Some Recent Developments in Histamine Receptor Antagonist"
October 21 -
Ronald A. Hites
(Indiana University)
"Mass Spectrometry - Nature's Gift to Environmental Science"
November 18 -
Donald Frey
(Northwestern University)
"Whatever happened to the Corporate Central Research Laboratory?"
December 16 -
"CHAOS" (Comedy Group)
1989
January -
Cleveland G. Mosby
(DuPont - Freon Products Division)
"The Chlorofluorocarbon Ozone Depletion Issue"
February 24 -
Helen Free
(Miles Laboratories)
"Chemistry Contributions to the Quality of Life"
March 17 -
William Beranek
(ICFAR)
"How safe is safe? A Chemist's Journey into Public Policy"
April 28 -
J.S. Felton
(Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
"Chemical and Biological Characterization of Mutagens and Carcinogens in Cooked Foods"
May 19 -
GIBBS AWARD
Richard B. Bernstein
(UCLA)
"The Steric Factor in Chemical Kinetics via Oriented Molecule Beam Scattering"
June 23 -
Ted Delaca
(National Science Foundation)
"Science in the Antarctic"
September 22 -
Clayton Callis
(ACS President)
"The Continuing Care and Maintenance of the Chemical Enterprise"
October 20 -
STIELIGTZ LECTURE
John W. Vanderhoff
(Lehigh University)
"The First Products Made in Space: Monodisperse Latex Particles"
November 17 -
Richard M. Caprioli
(University of Texas - Medical School)
"Combining Electrophoresis, HPLC and Mass Spectrometry"
December 15 -
SKY SHOW
"Star of Wonder"
1990
January 19 -
George G. Lowry
(Western Michigan University)
"Chemical Safety and Right to Know Laws"
February 23 -
Loren J. Joseph
(University of Chicago)
"DNA Fingerprinting"
March 23 -
John W. Ahlen
(Arkansas Science and Technology Authority)
"The Role of Science and Technology in Enhancing a State's Economic Growth"
April 13 -
Geoffrey A. Cordell & Norman Farnsworth
(University of Illinois - Chicago)
"Pharmaceuticals for the Tropical Rain Forest"
May 18 -
GIBBS AWARD
Richard N. Zare
(Stanford University)
"Advances in Chemical Analysis- Lasers in Chemical Analysis: Seeing less is seeing more"
June 22 -
George Bodner
(Purdue University)
"Problem Solving: the Difference Between What We Do and What We Tell People to Do "
September 14 -
Jules Blake
(US Government, Science & Technology Dept.)
"Adventures in the Technology Transfer Trade"
October 19 -
Susselan Pookote
(Simplesse Co.)
"Simplesse - All Natural Fat Substitute"
November 16 -
George A. Olah
(University of Southern California)
Stieglitz Lecture
"New Vistas of Electrophilic Reactions of Hydrocarbons""
December 14 -
Walter McCrone
(McCrone Institute)
"What Every Good Forger Should Know"
1991
January 25 -
Isao Noda
(Procter & Gamble, Inc.)
"Two Dimensional Infrared"
February 22 -
Michael Ward
(University of Minnesota)
"In-situ Mass Measurements with the Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Liquid Media"
March 22 -
Leon M. Lederman
(University of Chicago)
"Science: The End of a Frontier?"
April 12 -
Eugene Garfield
(Institute for Scientific Info.,)
""
May 24 -
June 21 -
J.J. Lagowski
(University of Texas)
""
September
October 25 -
Bernard S. Lee
(Institute of Gas Technology)
"An Update on IGT"
November 22 -
Arthur G. Ramdol, III
(Exxon Chemicals)
"Valdez Spill in Prince William Sound - Synposis and Update"
December 11 -
Edward Minson
(Ambrosia Chocolate)
"Chocolate - From the Bean to the Bar"
1992
January 24 -
John Veradke
(Iowa State University)
"Outstanding Large Section Award"
February
March 20 -
James W. Mitchell
(AT&T Bell Laboratories)
"Alternate Starting Materials for Industrial Processes"
April 24 -
D.H. Michael Bowen
(American Chemical Society)
"What ACS Does With Member Dues Money "
May 21
June 19 -
John A. Conklin
(Washington College)
"The Chemistry of Fireworks"
September 25 -
R.P.H. Chang
(Northwestern University)
"Buckminsterfullerenes"
October 23 -
George Sadler
(National Center for Food Safety and Technology)
"Food/ Container Interactions".
November 18 -
William L. Jorgenson
(Yale University)
Stieglitz Lecture
December 11 -
Barry Baumann
(Chicago Conservation Center)
"The Conservation of Paintings & Historical Discoveries".
1993
January 22 -
Donald Stedman
(University of Denver)
"Remote Sensing of Air Pollutants".
February 19 -
Steve Creager
(Indiana University)
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy".
March 19
April 23 -
R. Marshall Wilson
(University of Cincinnatti)
"High Intensity Laser Organic Photochemistry"
May 20
June 25
September 10 -
Gary H. Kitmacher
(NASA Johnson Space Ctr.)
"Exploring Space in the New Millenium"
October 22 -
Eric Block
(SUNY/ Albany)
"Chemistry in a Salad Bowl: Organosulfur Chemistry of the Genus Allium".
November 19 -
Harry Morrison
(Purdue University)
"Photosensitized Inactivation of Nucleic Acids - Light as a Mutagen, Drug and Immunosuppressing Agent".
December 17 -
Mel Schabilion
(DEA)
"Illicit Manufacturing of Drugs".
1994
January 21 -
James T. Haw
(Texas A&M University)
"Toward a Systematic Chemistry of Zeolite Catalysis: In Situ NMR of Catalysts".
February 25 -
Paul Soreno
(University of Chicago)
"Uncovering the Lessons of the Past: Dinosaur Evolution".
March 25
April 22
May 19
June 23 -
Jerry R. Mohrig
(Carleton College)
"Changing Winds in Undergraduate Chemical Education: Will They Bring the Needed Changes?"
September
October 21 -
John Ackerman
(Argonne National Laboratory)
"The Integral Fast Reactor and the Pyrochemistry of Actinide Recovery".
November 18 -
Tobin J. Marks
(Northwestern University)
"Chemistry for Lightwave Technologies: Molecule-Based Nonlinear Optical Materials".
December 16 -
Kent Zeller
(Hershey Foods Corp.)
"Upon the Rotation of the Plane of Polarized Light".
1995
January 20 -
Steven Zimmerman
(University of Illinois-Urbana)
"Supramolecular Architectures: From Host-Guest to Self-Assembling Systems".
February 24 -
George Smoot
"Observations of the Big Bang: The Creation and Evolution of the Universe".
March 30 -
Silas Purnell
(Ada S. McKinley Services)
"Educating Minority-Disadvantaged Youth: From Inner-City Neighborhoods to College Campuses - How to Get Them There from Here".
April 21 -
Miodrag Radulovacki, M.D.
(University of Illinois - Chicago)
"The Pharmacology of Sleep".
May 19
June 23 -
Michael Doyle
(Trinity University)
"Turning Students on to Chemistry".
September 22 -
Linda I. Baum (Chicago Medical School)
"Cell-Mediated Immunology of HIV"
October 20 -
Andrew Streitwieser (University of California at Berkeley)
November 17 -
Ernest L. Eliel (University of North Carolina)
"Benzylic Carbanions - Are They Planar?"
December 15 -
Richard N. Zare (Stanford University)
"Have Laser; Will Travel".
1996
January 19
February 23
March 22
April 19 -
Ronald Breslow (Columbia University)
"Biomimetic Chemistry"
May 24
June 21 -
Sylvia Ware (ACS Education Division)
September 20 -
Kenneth E. Kolb
(Bradley University)
"Glass: Its Many Facets".
October 25 -
Otto Furuta
()
"Industry and the Public Debate on Chlorinated Chemicals".
November 22 -
Harihara Mehendale
(Northwest Louisiana University)
"Injury and Repair as Opposing Forces in Risk Assessment".
December 11
1997
January 24
February 21 -
Mary Lou Cowlishaw
(Illinois House of Representatives)
March 20
April 25 -
Ben Luberoff
(ConcepTeam, Inc.)
"Innovation for Fun and Profit"
May 23
June 20 -
Zafra Lerman
(Columbia College, Science Institute)
"The Art of Teaching Chemistry: From Textbooks and Test Tubes To Dance and Drama".
September 19 - Carmen I. Nitsche: (Nalco Chemical) "A Changing Terrain: Chemical Information at the Desktop"
October 24 - George W. Luther III: (University of Delaware) "Voltammetric Solid State (micro) Electrodes and Their Application to Marine Chemistry or Electrodes + Mud = Fun + Science"
November 21 - Kenneth S. Suslick: (University of Illinois - Urbana)
"The Chemical Effects of Ultrasound"
December 12 - Alan R. Hirsch, M.D.: (Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation)
"The Effects on Behavior of Airborne Chemical, Aromas in Your Life"
1998
January 26 - Ajay K. Bose: (Stevens Institute of Technology) "Microwave Assisted Organic and Biochemical Reactions"
February 20 - Wayne E. Wesolowski: (Benedictine University) "The Lincoln Funeral Train - An Adventure in Urethane Chemistry"
March 20 - Dale J. Kempf: (Abbott Laboratories) "HIV Protease Inhibitors: From Bench to Bedside"
April 24 -
Margaret A. Cavanaugh
(National Science Foundation)
"Is Institutional Culture Changing for Women Chemists?"
May 15 - Mario J. Molina: (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Chemistry of Strasopheric Ozone Depletion"
September 25 - Mary Virginia Orna (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
October 23 - Alanah Fitch: (Loyola University) Lead & Humanity: "A 5000 Year Toxic Marriage"
November 18 - Frederick L. Webber: (Chemical Manufacturers Association) "A Look at the Road Ahead"
December 11 - Mike McCreary "Mars Pathfinder Mission"
1999
- January 22 - Joseph B. Lambert: (Northwestern University) "Unraveling the Past through Chemistry".
- February 19 - John R. Marquart: (Eastern Illinois University) "Caves - Worlds Within the World: An Introduction to the Chemistry, Geology and Ecology of Caves".
- March 12 - Bill Kurtis
- April 23
- May 21 - Lawrence F. Dahl: Gibbs Awardee
- June 25 - John Moore: (University of Wisconsin) "Can Virtual Reality have Real Virtue? Using Electronic Media Effectively"
- September 24 - Andrew T. Graham "Synthesis and Application of Superabsorbent Polymers".
- October 22 - Patrick Murray "Production of Water-Soluble Polymers As Water-Continuous Dispersions".
- November 19 - Derek Davenport (Purdue University)
"The Royal Institution of Great Britain: 1799-1999".
- December 10 -"Cady" Coleman (National Aeronautics & Space Administration)
"NASA and the STS-93 Mission".
2000
- January 21 - John Parlow (Monsanto)"Polymer-Assisted Solution Phase (PASP) Chemical Library
Synthesis".
- February 25 - Christopher L. Marshall (Argonne National Labs)
"New Mesoporous Supports for the Desulfurization of Diesel
and Heavy Oils".
- March 17 - David Samuel (Weizmann Institute)
Public Affairs Program: "Memory, Learning and Forgetting".
- April 14 - Peter Maul (Nanocor)
"Recent Advances in Clay/Plastic Nanocomposites".
- May 19 - Nicholas J. Turro: (Columbia University)
Gibbs Award" "From Molecular Photochemistry to Supramolecular Photochemistry"
- June 23 - David Piazza David Piazza, M.D.
(Naperville Surgical Association)
"Why Palms are Pink and Poop is Brown".
- October 6 - James P. Collman (Stanford University)Basolo Award
- November 17 - Joanna Fowler STEIGLITZ LECTURE (Brookhaven National Lab "Imaging Drug Action in the Human Brain"
- December 15 - John J. Fortman (Wright State University)"The Serious and Delirious Use of Chemistry in Movies"
2001
- January 19 - Mark S. Konings (3M, Minnesota) "The Art of the Brew: The History of Beer Brewing"
- February 23 - Shahna M. Richman (FBI) "Bioterrorism in
the U.S."
- March 16- Hon. Harris Fawell (former Congressman), "The
Challenges of Leadership in a Global Marketplace"
- April 20 - Allan Hedges (Cerestar, Inc.), "Industrial
Applications of Cyclodextrins"
- May 18- Gibbs Award: Tobin Marks (Northwestern Univ), "Bridges Between Heterogeneous
and Homogeneous Catalysis. The Case of Supported and Homogeneous Olefin
Polymerization Catalysts"
- June 22- Kimberly Olsen (Loyola College, Maryland), "Lead's Dangerous Legacy: A
Chemistry Service-Learning Project"
- September 21- Hélène R. Dickel (University
of Illinois), "Molecules in Interstellar Space"
- October 19- Fred Hawthorne (UCLA), "Polyhedral Boranes
and Organoboran Chemistry of the Second Kind"
- November 16- Natalie Foster (Lehigh University), "Where
No One Has Gone Before: Chemistry in Star Trek"
- December 14- Abigail Quandt (Walters Art Gallery), "Conservation
and Digital Imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest"
2002
- January 25 – Dr. Phyllis Bowen (U of IL, Chicago) “Modulation
of Biomarkers of Carcinogenesis by Tomato Sauce Feeding in Men with Prostate
Cancer” at Manzo’s Banquets
- February 22 – Dr. A Truman Schwartz (Macalester College) “Chemistry
and its Teaching at the Turn of the Century: The Janus View” at The Parthenon
Restaurant
- March 22 – Dr. Dennis Hjeresen (ACS Green Chemistry Institute) “Green
Chemistry to Address Global Environmental Issues” at Marriott O’Hare
- April 19 – Dr. Norman P. Neureiter (Science and Tech. Adviser to the
Secretary of State) “Science and Technology in the State Dept. after
11 September” at Monastero’s Restaurant
- May 24 - GIBBS AWARD Professor
Ralph Hirschmann (U of Pennsylvania) “The Use of Simple Chemical Concepts
to Explain Unexpected Biological Results with Sugar-Based Peptidomimetics” at
Argonne Guest House
- June 21 – Dr. John Fortman (Professor
Emeritus Wright State University) “America’s Funniest Chemical
Videos: Dazzling Demos and Videotaped Bloopers” at LaMirage Restaurant
- September 20 – Judie
D. Dziezak (Wallenstein and Wagner, LTD) “Protecting You Intellectual
Assets: Patents, Trademarks and Copy rights” at Reza’s Restaurant
- October 18 --Prof. Stephen J. Lippard (MIT ) "Three Avenues in Bioinorganic
Chemistry: Cisplatin, Methane Monoxygenase, and Metalloneurochemistry"
at Northwestern and Kendall College
- October 26 – National Chemistry Day at University of Illinois Chicago
- November 22 – Dr. Patrick Gruber (Cargill Dow, LLC) Julius Stieglitz
Lecture: “Polymers from Renewable Resources No Longer a Field of Dreams” at
Manzo’s Banquets
- December 13 - Dr. Mark Ratner (Northwestern University) “Wine,
Beer, Scotch and Chemistry” at Monastero’s Restaurant
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