The Howard Lectures

The Howard lectures are delivered at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney by a scientist who has pre-eminence in the area of Organic Chemistry or a related discipline.

The lectures are funded by a bequest left to both Universities in 1993 by the late Harold Theodore Clyde Howard. Howard obtained his B.Sc. from Sydney University and graduated from Sydney Teachers College in Chemistry and Organic Chemistry (Pure and Applied).

He taught chemistry for many years (1925-62) and upon retirement in 1966 carried out further research in saponins and steroid chemistry as an Honorary Research Associate at Macquarie University (1966-77) and the University of New South Wales (1978-85).

A complete list of the previous Howard Lecturers is given below.

Year	Lecturer	Institution
1994	Professor Peter B. Dervan	California Institute of Technology
1995	Professor Andrew G. Myers	California Institute of Technology
1996	Professor Jean-Marie Lehn	Collège de France and Université Louis Pasteur
1997	Professor Edwin C. Constable	University of Basel
1998	Professor Clayton H. Heathcock	University of California, Berkeley
1999	Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto	University of Sussex
2000	Professor Paul A. Wender	Stanford University
2001	Professor Jeffrey S. Moore	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2002	Professor Julius Rebek Jr.	The Scripps Research Institute
2003	Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi	University of California, Berkeley
2004	Professor Andrew D. Hamilton	Yale University
2005	Professor M. Reza Ghadiri	The Scripps Research Institute
2006	Professor Shū Kobayashi	University of Tokyo
2007	Professor Shankar Balasubramanian	University of Cambridge
2008	Professor Chi-Huey Wong	The Scripps Research Institute
2009	Professor John F. Hartwig	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2010	Professor Gary A. Molander	University of Pennsylvania
2011	Professor Christopher A. Hunter	University of Sheffield
2012	Professor Phil S. Baran	The Scripps Research Institute
2013	Professor Andrew Phillips	Yale University
2014	Professor Stephen B. H. Kent	University of Chicago
2015	Professor M. G. Finn	Georgia Institute of Technology
2016	Professor Peter H. Seeberger	Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
2017	Professor Alan E. Rowan	University of Queensland
2018	Professor Jonathan L. Sessler	University of Texas at Austin
2019	Professor Clemens Richert	University of Stuttgart
2020	Professor Katharina Landfester	Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
2023	Professor Ram Krishnamurthy	The Scripps Research Institute
2025	Professor Michael J. Zaworotko	University of Limerick

Harold Theodore Clyde Howard

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