2014 Steven Chu
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics and Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Stanford University
Video of Professor Chu's Lecture - The Energy and Climate Challenge: We Need a Few Great Chemists!

2014
Jeffrey A. Hubbell
Director of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering of the ETH
The University of Zurich Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Materials Science of the ETH École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

2013 Steven J. Benkovic
The Pennsylvania State University

2012 Ada E. Yonath
Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot, Israel

2008/2009 Robert Y. Tsien
University of California, San Diego

2006/2007 Rolf Thauer
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

2006 Joseph M. DeSimone
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2005 Thomas R. Cech
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and University of Colorado at Boulder

2004 Robert S. Langer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2003 Lawrence J. Marnett
Vanderbilt University

2002 Amos B. Smith, III
University of Pennsylvania
View a complete list of Nelson P. Leonard Distinguished Lecturers