The Marker Lectures were established in 1984 through a gift from the late Russell Earl Marker, professor emeritus of organic chemistry at Penn State, whose pioneering synthetic methods revolutionized the steroid-hormone industry and opened the door to the current era of hormone therapies, including the birth-control pill. The Marker endowment allows the Penn State Eberly College of Science to present annual Marker Lectures in astronomy and astrophysics, the chemical sciences, evolutionary biology, genetic engineering, the mathematical sciences, and physics.
| 2007 |
Craig Evans University of California, Berkeley |
Maximum Principles and Generalized Solutions of Nonlinear Partial-Differential Equations Applications to Optimal-Mass-Transport Problems Applications to Weak Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser (KAM) Theory Applications to Sup-Norm Variational Problems |
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| 2006 |
James Yorke University of Maryland |
How Infectious is HIV / AIDS? Describing the Exponential Growth of the HIV Epidemic Evolution: Each Individual is an Experiment, a Chronicle of Random Mutations in Our DNA The Challenge to Better Determine the DNA of the Varieties of Species |
| 2005 | Dennis Sullivan | |
| 2004 | Sergiu Klainerman | |
| 2003 | Shmuel Weinberger | |
| 2002 | Timothy Gowers | |
| 2001 | Peter Sarnak | |
| 2000 | Yakov Eliashberg | |
| 1999 | Andy Majda | |
| 1998 | Hillel Furstenberg | |
| 1997 | Benedict Gross | |
| 1996 | Efim Zelmanov | |
| 1995 | Dusa McDuff | |
| 1994 | Clifford Taubes | |
| 1993 | G. D. Mostow | |
| 1992 | J. L. Lions | |
| 1991 | A. Connes | |
| 1989 | S. Smale | |
| 1988 | Joe Keller | |
| 1987 | M. Freedman |