The Andrews Lectureship

The Andrews Lectureship at the University of New South Wales was conceived and developed by Professor Stephen Angyal and established with a generous contribution from Dr Andrew Ungar, after whom the series was named.

Through the very substantial support of his widow, Beryl Ungar, along with continuing efforts of Professor Angyal and contributions from chemists throughout Australia, it is now an endowed lectureship of the University of New South Wales Chemical Society.

The lectures began in 1960 to bring eminent lecturers to UNSW to deliver a series of talks.

In the early days four lectures were given, but given this became onerous it was reduced to three.

The lectures are delivered by distinguished visiting scientists on subjects in chemistry or biochemistry which bear some relation to biological activity.

A list of the previous Andrews Lecturers is given below.

Year	Lecturer	Institution
1960	Professor Ewart R. H. Jones	University of Oxford
1961	Professor Carl Djerassi	Stanford University
1962	Professor Franz Sondheimer	Weizmann Institute of Science
1964	Professor Vlado Prelog	ETH Zürich
1965	Professor William S. Johnson	Stanford University
1968	Professor Konrad E. Bloch	Harvard University
1970	Associate Professor John W. Cornforth	Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology
1974	Professor Ernest Wenkert	Rice University
1975	Professor Alan R. Battersby	University of Cambridge
1976	Professor Sir Derek H. R. Barton	Imperial College of Science and Technology
1978	Professor Jerrold Meinwald	Cornell University
1979	Professor Alastair I. Scott	Texas A&M University
1982	Professor Kenneth L. Rinehart Jr.	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1984	Professor Heinz A. Staab	Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
1985	Professor Ralph A. Raphael	University of Cambridge
1988	Professor Charles W. Rees	Imperial College of Science and Technology
1990	Professor Dieter Seebach	ETH Zürich
1992	Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama	Science University of Tokyo
1994	Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage	Université Louis Pasteur
1997	Professor Kyriacos C. Nicolaou	The Scripps Research Institute
2000	Professor François Diederich	ETH Zürich
2002	Professor Steven V. Ley	University of Cambridge
2004	Professor George M. Whitesides	Harvard University
2005	Professor Michael N. Paddon-Row	University of New South Wales
2009	Professor Samuel I. Stupp	Northwestern University
2011	Professor Ben L. Feringa	University of Groningen
2013	Professor Eric N. Jacobsen	Harvard University
2016	Professor Keiji Maruoka	Kyoto University
2018	Professor Margaret A. Brimble	University of Auckland
2022	Professor Bert W. Meijer	Eindhoven University of Technology
2024	Professor Jishan Wu	National University of Singapore
2025	Professor Martin Oestreich	TU Berlin

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