Max T. Rogers Lectureship
The Michigan State University Section of the American Chemical Society has helped sponsor an annual lecture series that brings world-renowned scientists to the campus each spring. The lecture series was co-sponsored by the Renaud Foundation for 39 years and, hence, traditionally became known as the Renaud Lecture Series. Although the philanthropic trust of the Renaud Foundation was liquidated recently, the MSU Section of the American Chemical Society continues this prestigious series of lectures. An anonymous donor has provided support for the Lecture Series in the name of Max T. Rogers. Dr. Rogers, a physical chemist who served as Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University for over 40 years, was a special member of the Department of Chemistry and the University. His outstanding contributions in the area of magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and his enlightened view of science, added prestige and distinction to the Department of Chemistry and the University community. It is a privilege for the MSU Section of the American Chemical Society and the MSU Department of Chemistry to continue the lecture series in the name of Professor Max T. Rogers.
| Year | Name | University/Company |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | George C. Schatz | Northwestern University |
| 2021 | George C. Schatz | Northwestern University |
| 2019 | Geraldine L. Richmond | University of Oregon |
| 2018 | Adriaan Bax | National Institutes of Health |
| 2017 | Benjamin Cravatt | The Scripps Research Institute |
| 2016 | William DeGrado | University of California – San Francisco |
| 2015 | Jonathan V. Sweedler | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 2014 | Thomas E. Mallouk | Pennsylvania State University |
| 2013 | Louis E. Brus | Columbia University |
| 2012 | Raymond C. Stevens | The Scripps Research Institute |
| 2011 | Nathan S. Lewis | Beckman Institute and Kavli Nanoscience Institute |
| 2011 | Ann E. McDermott | Columbia University New York, NY |
| 2009 | Chad A. Mirkin | Northwestern University |
| 2008 | Donald G. Truhlar | University of Minnesota |
| 2007 | Sir John Meurig Thomas | Davy Faraday Research Laboratory The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London |
| R. Graham Cooks | Purdue University | |
| A. Paul Alivisatos | University of California, Berkeley | |
| John C. Polanyi | Department of Chemistry University of Toronto | |
| Robert Tycko | National Institutes of Health | |
| 2002 | Michael J. Sailor | University of California, San Diego |
| 2001 | Peter B. Moore | Yale University |
| Keith U. Ingold | Institute of Molecular Sciences - National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa | |
| 1999 | Dudley Herschbach | Harvard University |
| Alexander Pines | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Graham R. Fleming | The University of Chicago | |
| Paul C. Lauterbur | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | |
| Martin Karplus | Harvard University | |
| Jerrold Meinwald | Cornell University | |
| John E. Bercaw | California Institute of Technology | |
| Gerhard L. Closs | The University of Chicago | |
| John A. Pople | Carnegie-Mellon University and Northwestern University | |
| Ahmed H. Zewail | California Institute of Technology | |
| Richard N. Zare | Stanford University | |
| Thomas C. Bruice | University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Harry B. Gray | California Institute of Technology | |
| J. Calvin Giddings | University of Utah | |
| Jean-Marie Lehn | ||
| K. Neil Bartlett | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Berni J. Alder | ||
| R. A. Marcus | California Institute of Technology | |
| Henry Taube | Stanford University | |
| Ronald Breslow | Columbia University | |
| Ilya Prigogine | ||
| William P. Jencks | Brandeis University | |
| Roald Hoffmann | Cornell University | |
| Leslie E. Orgel | University of California, San Diego | |
| William N. Lipscomb | Harvard University | |
| Gerhard Herzberg | ||
| Paul D. Bartlett | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Linus Pauling | California Institute of Technology | |
| Carl Djerassi | Stanford University | |
| F. Albert Cotton | Texas A&M University | |
| Harden M. McConnell | Stanford University | |
| Herbert C. Brown | Purdue University | |
| Ronald S. Nyholm | ||
| Manfred Eigen | ||
| E. J. Corey | Harvard University | |
| Charles Tanford | Duke University | |
| Peter J. W. Debye | Cornell University | |
| Derek H. R. Barton | Texas A&M University | |
| George Watt | The University of Texas, Austin | |
| Herbert A. Laitinen | University of Illinois | |
| Henry Eyring | University of Utah | |
| John D. Roberts | California Institute of Technology | |
| I. M. Klotz | Northwestern University | |
| Joseph J. Katz | University of Iowa | |
| Leon Marion | ||
| Richard Dodson | Columbia University | |
| Melvin Calvin | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Harvey Diehl | Iowa State University | |
| Melvin S. Newman | The Ohio State University | |
| Milton Burton | University of Notre Dame | |
| M. A. Lauffer |