This is an annual series which commemorates more than forty years of outstanding service rendered to the University by the late Professor Reuben Sandin as a dedicated scholar and inspiring teacher of Organic Chemistry.

Previous Lecturers:

• 2012 Jon Clardy (Harvard Medical School)
• 2011 Vern Schramm (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
• 2010 Eiichi Nakamura (Univ. of Tokyo)
• 2009 Carolyn Bertozzi (U. California, Berkeley)
• 2008 Stephen Benkovic (Pennsylvania State University)
• 2007 Larry Overman (UC Irvine)
• 2006 Jerrold Meinwald (Cornell University)
• 2005 William DeGrado (University of Pennsylvania)
• 2004 Henri Kagan (Université Paris Sud)
• 2003 Paul Wender (Stanford University)
• 2002 Peter B. Dervan (California Institute of Technology)
• 2001 K. Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research Institute)
• 2000 Robert Grubbs (California Institute of Technology)
• 1999 S.V. Ley
• 1998 C. Walsh
• 1997 T. Mukaiyama
• 1996 R. Noyori
• 1995 Sir Jack Baldwin
• 1993 B.M. Trost
• 1992 P.G. Schultz
• 1991 G.M. Whitesides
• 1990 D.J. Cram
• 1989 D. Seebach
• 1988 D.A. Evans
• 1987 J.R. Knowles
• 1986 C. Walling
• 1985 R.A. Raphael
• 1984 K. Mislow
• 1983 P. Deslongchamps
• 1982 J.M. Lehn
• 1981 Y. Kishi
• 1980 G. Stork
• 1979 B.R. Belleau
• 1978 H. Gobing Khorana
• 1977 Sir John Connforth
• 1976 B. Lingberg
• 1975 K. Nakanishi
• 1974 G. Ourisson
• 1973 R. Breslow
• 1972 D. Arigoni
• 1971 K. Wiesner
• 1970 E. Vogel
• 1969 Sir Derek Barton
• 1968 H. Eggerer
• 1967 Sir Ewart Jones
• 1966 A. Eschenmoser
• 1965 J.D. Roberts
• 1964 G. Buchi
• 1963 E.E. Van Tamelen
• 1962 S. Winstein