4 Dec 1981 | J. Y. E. Rahman, ANL Biology Div., Targeted drug delivery - tomorrow's therapy |
9 Apr 1982 | Leigh Anderson, ANL Biology Div., Making a Catalogue of Human Proteins |
14 May 1982 | J. D. Cowan, Chicago, Spontaneous symmetry breaking in large-scale nervous systems. (What do drug-induced visual hallucinations tell us about the brain?) |
8 Oct 1982 | L. F. Mausner, BNL, The Production of Spallation Radio Nuclides for Medical Applications |
11 Feb 1983 | Hans Frauenfelder, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Physics of Proteins |
28 Oct 1983 | Richard van Frank, Eli Lilly Corp., Industrial Scale Recombinant DNA Technology |
6 Jan 1984 | William Dryer, CalTech, Microchemical Instrumentation in Protein and Nucleic AcidMolecular Biology |
20 Jan 1984 | John Cairns, Harvard U., Oncogenes and the Causes of Cancer |
13 Apr 1984 | Arnie Friedman, ANL Chemistry Div., Some Applications of Nuclear Chemistry in Medicine |
5 Oct 1984 | Stanley Leibo, Rio Vista International, Mechanisms that Determine the Preservation of Mammalian Embryos by Freezing |
5 Apr 1985 | Peter Friedland, Stanford U., MOLGEN - Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Molecular Biology |
11 Oct 1985 | Paul C. Lauterbur, U. of Illinois, Urbana, New Directions in NMR Imaging |
11 Dec 1987 | Joie Jones, U. of California at Irvine, Ultrasonics in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Medicine |
19 Feb 1988 | Richard Toohey, ANL Health Physics Div., Indoor Radon and Lung Cancer |
17 Nov 1989 | Anthony V. Nero, Jr., LBNL, Indoor Radon: Myth and Reality |
11 May 1990 | Clifford Matthews, U. of Illinois, Chicago, Cosmochemistry and the Origin of Life |
11 Jan 1991 | Edwin M. Westbrook, ANL Biological and Medical Research Div. & Northwestern U., Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to the Study of Biological Structure at the Molecular Level |
27 Mar 1992 | Marianne Schiffer, ANL Biological and Medical Research Div., Proteins: Nature's Sensors and Machines |
4 Feb 1994 | John E. Frederick, U. of Chicago, Ultraviolet Radiation and the Biosphere: Contrasts Between the Hemispheres |
24 Oct 1997 | Ernst W. Otten, U. of Mainz, Spin Polarized 3He Measurement of the Form Factor of the Neutron and of the Human Lung |
20 Feb 1998 | Paul C. Lauterbur, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Diffusional Enhancement of Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
11 Dec 1998 | Andrei Mirzabekov, ANL Biology Div. & Engelhart Institute of Molecular Biology, Biological Microchips: A Challenge for Engineers, Physicists and Computer Scientists |
5 Mar 1999 | Michael Welch, Washington U. Medical Center, Current Advances in PET and its Applications |
7 May 1999 | Geoffrey West, LANL, The Tree of Life; The Origin of Universal Scaling Laws in Biology from Molecules and Cells to Whales |
3 Mar 2000 | Richard Wilson, Harvard U., Hormesis, Low Dose Linearity and the Nuclear Industry |
30 Mar 2001 | Keith Moffat, U. of Chicago, Picosecond Time-resolved Macromolecular Crystallography: Molecular Movies? |
27 Apr 2001 | Johann Deisenhofer, Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Interactions of Drugs With Their Target in Atomic Detail |
15 Nov 2002 | Jayanth Banavar, Penn State U., The Geometry and Physics of Proteins |
25 Apr 2003 | Timothy Chupp, U. of Michigan, NMR and MRI with Laser Polarized Noble Gases: What's New? |
27 Feb 2004 | Spencer Wells, National Geographic Society, The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey |
14 May 2004 | Joel Karp, U. of Pennsylvania, Positron Emission Tomography (PET): Present and Future Technology |
21 May 2004 | Al Seckel, CalTech, The World's Most Powerful Illusions: An Interactive Journey Through Your Mind's Eye |
4 Jun 2004 | Lynne Osman Elkin, California State U. at Hayward, Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix |
20 May 2005 | James Trosko, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State U., A paradign challenge in understanding carcinogenesis: adult stem cells and cell-cell communication gone amuck |
17 Feb 2006 | Arlene Lennox, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Neutrons Against Cancer |
31 Mar 2006 | Stephen L. Dewey, BNL, Brain Function by PET Scan |
30 Mar 2007 | Neil Shubin, U. of Chicago, Discovering a Link Between Fish and Limbed Animals: The Story of Tiktaalik roseae |
4 May 2007 | Ian Shipsey, Purdue U., Bringing Hearing to the Deaf -- Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account |
8 May 2009 | Prabhakar Nair, UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company, Biofuels: Unlocking the Potential |
13 Nov 2009 | Carlos Bustamante, U. California, Berkeley, Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Single Molecule Studies of a Viral DNA Packaging Motor. |
16 Sep 2011 | Margaret Gardel, U. of Chicago, Cellular Mechanics |
22 Feb 2013 | Michael Rust, U. Chicago, Robust Circadian Rhythms from Three Proteins |
11 Oct 2013 | Michael Rust, U. of Chicago, Robust Circadian Rhythms from Three Proteins |
21 Feb 2014 | Lene Broeng Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Long-range ordered vorticity patterns in living tissue induced by cell division |
11 Apr 2014 | Oliver Jäkel, Heidelberg U., Hadron Cancer Therapy -- Relative Merits of X-ray, Proton, and Carbon Beams |
9 Oct 2015 | Elena Rozhkova, Center for Nanoscale Materials, ANL National Lab., Cancer Nanotechnology: At the Interface of Engineered Nanomaterials and Living Systems |
9 Oct 2015 | Tijana Rajh, Center for Nanoscale Materials, ANL National Lab., Cancer Nanotechnology: At the Interface of Engineered Nanomaterials and Living Systems |
6 Nov 2015 | Bobby Kasthuri, Nanoscience and Technology Div., ANL National Lab., The BRAIN Initiative |
20 Nov 2015 | Jack Gilbert, Biosciences Div., ANL National Lab., Invisible Influence: Exploring the human microbiome |
29 Jan 2016 | Klaus Schulten, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Towards an Atomic Level Description of a Living Cell - The Photosynthetic Chromatophore of Purple Bacteria, a Milestone |
5 Feb 2016 | Jeffrey W. Elam, Energy Systems Div., ANL National Lab., Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Tunable Resistance Coatings Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition |
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