Past Fred M. Garland Lectureships

1981
William H. Glaze, The University of Texas at Dallas, "Applications of Chemistry in the Study of Drinking Water Supplies"

1982
Larry Kevan, The University of Houston, "Chemical Applications of Electron Spin Echoes"

1983
Allen J. Bard, The University of Texas at Austin, "Solar Energy Conversion through Photochemistry at Semiconductors"

1984
Andrew L. Ternay, Jr., The University of Texas at Arlington, "A Role for the Organic Chemist in Modern Chemistry–the Treatment of Mental Illness with Chemicals"

1985
Ralph A. Zingaro, Texas A&M University, "Selenium–A Schizophrenic Element"

1986
Henry J. Shine, Texas Tech University, "Learning How Molecules React by Using Heavy Atoms"

1987
W. Carl Lineberger, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), The University of Colorado, "Laser Probes of the Structure of Anions"

1988
J. J. Lagowski, The University of Texas at Austin, "The Future of Chemical Education"

1989
Raymond B. Seymour, University of Southern Mississippi, "Modern Polymer Science"

1990
Kurt J. Irgolic, University of Graz, Austria, "Arsenic in the Environment"

1991
Gerald L. Robbins, Mobay Corporation, "The Chemist’s Role in Industry"

1992
Julia E. Lever, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, "How Molecules Cross Cell Membranes"

1993
Ronald Macfarlane, Texas A&M University, "Benchtop Chemistry Induced by Nuclear Fission"

1994
Richard E. Smalley, Rice University, "Buckyballs and the New Carbon-Based Nanotechnology"

1995
O. Stanley Fruchey, Hoechst-Celanese Corporation, "Polymers to Pharmaceuticals to Polymers, A Story of Serendipity and Technical Success"

1996
Darleane C. Hoffman, University of California, Berkeley, "One-Atom-At-A-Time Chemistry of the Heaviest Elements"

1997
Mario J. Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: A Global Problem"

1998
Jacqueline K. Barton, California Institute of Technology, "Travels Along the DNA Helix"

1999
J. Roger Hirl, President and CEO of Occidental Chemical, "Chemicals 2000:   Bringing on the Future"

2000
Neil Bartlett, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, "Noble Gas Chemistry"

2001
Daryle H. Busch, Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas, 2000 President of the American Chemical Society, "Extreme Ligands for Extreme Purposes"

2002
Peter J. Stang, University of Utah, "Nanoscale Molecular Architecture:  Design and Self-assembly of Metallacyclic Polygons and Polyhedra via Coordination"

2003
John Conkling, Former Executive Director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, "Things That Go 'Boom" in the Night"

2004
Carl E. Wieman, Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Nobel Prize in Physics, 2001, "Bose-Einstein Condensate:  Quantum Weirdness at Lowest Temperature in the Universe"