The Axalta Distinguished Lecture Series (formerly the DuPont-Marshall Laboratory Lecture Series) at the University of Pennsylvania is part of an ongoing program of cooperation and interaction between scientists and technical staff members of Axalta Performance Coatings and the Department of Chemistry of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. The DuPont-Marshall series ended with the closing of the Marshall Labs in 2008, but the series has been renewed with the creation of Axalta Performance Coatings in 2013.
Past speakers:
1987 Herbert C. Brown – Purdue University
1988 George M. Whitesides – Harvard University
1989 Donald J. Cram – UCLA
1990 Paul C.W. Chu – University of Houston
1991 Jean-Marie Lehn – Université Louis Pasteur
1992 R.E. Smalley – Rice University
1993 Elias J. Corey – Harvard University
1994 P.G. de Gennes – École de Physique et Chimie
1995 Roald Hoffmann – Cornell University
1996 Yuan T. Lee – UC Berkeley
1997 George A. Olah – University of Southern California
1998 John C. Polanyi – University of Toronto
1999 Thomas R. Cech – HHMI; University of Colorado
2000 Ahmed H. Zewail – California Institute of Technology
2001 Michele Parrinello – ETH Zurich
2002 Harry B. Gray – California Institute of Technology
2004 Peter G. Schultz – Scripps Research Institute
2005 Steven Chu – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
2006 Jean Fréchet – University of California, Berkeley
2007 Harold W. Kroto – Florida State University
2008 William Moerner – Stanford University
2013 Robert Langer – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2014 Omar Yaghi – University of California, Berkeley
2015 Robert Grubbs – California Institute of Technology
2016 Daniel Nocera – Harvard University
2017 Craig Hawker – University of California, Santa Barbara
2018 Charles Lieber – Harvard University
2019 Bert Meijer – Eindhoven University of Technology