This series of lectures in Physical Chemistry is given each year by an invited guest, in honor of Professor Harry Emmett Gunning, a former Department Chairman (1957-1974) and President of this University (1974-1979), who imaginatively aided in the growth of the institution.

Previous Lecturers:

• 2011 Marek Pruski (Iowa State University)
• 2010 Gerard Meijer (Fritz-Haber Institute)
• 2009 Geraldine Richmond (Univ. of Oregon)
• 2008 Martin Gruebele (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• 2007 Mark S. Gordon (Iowa State University)
• 2006 Patrick H. Vaccaro (Yale University)
• 2005 Carol Robinson (University of Cambridge)
• 2004 Mark A. Ratner (Northwestern University)
• 2003 Judith P. Klinman (University of California, Berkeley)
• 2002 Cynthia J. Jameson (University of Illinois, Chicago)
• 2001 Giacinto Scoles (Princeton University)
• 2000 Robin M. Hochstrasser (University of Pennsylvania)
• 1999 Harold Kroto (University of Sussex)
• 1998 Richard N. Zare (Stanford University)
• 1997 William L. Jorgensen (Yale University)
• 1995 Richard J. Saykally (University of California, Berkeley)
• 1994 Stuart A. Rice (University of Chicago)
• 1993 Harry B. Gray (CalTech)
• 1992 Josef F. Holzwarth (Fritz Haber Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft)
• 1991 Graham R. Fleming (University of California, Berkeley)
• 1990 Henry F. Schaefer III (University of Georgia)
• 1989 Ahmed H. Zewail (Caltech)
• 1988 William Klemperer (Harvard University)
• 1987 Richard R. Ernst (ETH, Zurich)
• 1986 J. N. Pitts
• 1985 K. S. Pitzer
• 1984 P. M. Rentzepis
• 1983 M. Calvin