The John M. Chemerda Lectures in Science are named in honor of John M. Chemerda, a member of the Penn State class of 1935.
| 2007 | Robert Kohn New York University |
Energy-Driven Pattern Formation Bounds on Coarsening Rates With Examples from Materials Science and Image Processing The Evolution of a Crystalline Surface Below the Roughening Temperature The Internal Structure of a Cross-Tie Wall: An Example of Magnetic Pattern Formation |
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| 2005 | Peter Schultz Scripps Institute |
An Expanding Genetic Code |
| 2004 | Ewine van Dishoeck University of Leiden, Netherlands |
Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Observations of Gas and Dust in Star- and Planet-Forming Regions: Ice Cold and Steaming Hot |
| 2003 | John Nash Princeton University |
Ideal Money and Asymptotically Ideal Money |
| 2002 | Carla Shatz Harvard University |
Dynamic Interplay Between Nature and Nurture in Brain Wiring |
| 2001 | Anton Zeilinger Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Universitat Wien, Austria |
Quantum Teleportation and the Nature of Physical Reality |
| 2000 | Luis Caffarelli University of Texas at Austin |
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: A Geometric Perspective |
| 1999 | Patrick Brown Stanford University Medical School |
A Microscope for Watching a Genome in Action |
| 1998 | Gabor Somorjai University of California, Berkeley |
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| 1997 | Laszlo Babai University of Chicago |
Paul Erdos (1913-1966): His Century, His Mathematics |
| 1996 | Laurence Hurst Churchill College |
The Evolutionary Genetics of Darwinian Genomics |
| 1995 | Freeman Dyson The Institute for Advanced Study |
Tolstoy's War and Peace as a Guide to Recent History |
| 1994 | Persi Diaconis Harvard University |
The Search for Randomness |
| 1993 | Jozef Schell Max Planck Institute fur Zuchtungsforschung, Germany |
Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology |
| 1992 | Leo Kadanoff University of Chicago |
Structure and Disorder: Lectures on the Foundation of Chaos |
| 1991 | Vaughan F. R. Jones University of California, Berkeley |
Knots and Braids in Mathematics, Physics, and Biology |
| 1990 | Richard C. Lewontin Harvard University |
Contingency and Necessity in Evolutionary Change |
| 1989 | Leon Lederman University of Chicago / Fermi National Lab |
Particles, Cosmology, and Science Education |
| 1988 | Robert E. Tarjan Princeton University |
Efficient Combinatorial Algorithms |
| 1987 | J. Michael Bishop University of California / Medical Center of San Francisco |
Cancer: Metaphor at Bay |
| 1986 | Robert J. P. Williams Oxford University |
The Role of Metal Ions in Living Systems |
| 1985 | Richard M. Karp University of California, Berkeley |
Computational Complexity, Combinatorics, and Randomness |
| 1984 | Richard D. Alexander University of Michigan |
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| 1983 | Roger Penrose Oxford University |
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| 1982 | Charles L. Fefferman Princeton University |
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| 1981 | Leroy E. Hood California Institute of Technology |
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| 1980 | Arthur L. Schawlow Stanford University |
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| 1979 | Mark Kac Rockefeller University |
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| 1978 | Wylie W. Vale The Salk Institute |
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| Edward M. Purcell Harvard University |
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| Julius Axelrod National Institutes of Health |