Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner and one of the greatest scientist of the 20th century, was an alumnus of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). Since 1987, the Department of Chemistry at OSU has invited a leader in the field of chemistry to give a series of lectures here in honor of Professor Pauling's many contributions to science and society.

Previous Linus Pauling Lecture Series presenters include

2016

Dr. Steven A Soper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2015

Dr. Anthony K. Cheetham, FRS, University of Cambridge

2014

Dr. Carolyn R. Bertozzi, University of California, Berkley

2013

Dr. Robin M. Hochstrasser, University of Pennsylvania

2004

Dr. John Meurig Thomas, Cambridge

2003

Dr. Robert Grubbs, California Institute of Technology

2000

Dr. John Goodenough, University of Texas

1999

Dr. Sherwood Rowland, University of California, Irvine

1997

Dr. Dudley Herschbach, Harvard

1996

Dr. Alan Battersby, Cambridge

1994

Dr. Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology

1993

Dr. Richard Zare, Stanford

1992

Dr. Nicholas Turro, Columbia University

1991

Dr. Allen Bard, University of Texas

1990

Dr. Jeremy Knowles, Harvard

1989

Dr. Mark Wrighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Neil Bartlett, University of California, Berkley

1988

Dr. William Klemperer, Harvard

1987

Dr. Harden McConnell, Stanford