| The
Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Lectures were inaugurated in 1995
by Dr. Emanuel Vogel. The series is named in honor of an endowment
by the family of Franz Roessler, a German chemist who emigrated
to the United States in 1882 to found the Roessler and Hasslacher
Chemical Company. The company became part of Dupont in 1930.
Roessler's son, Hans, was a student in Cornell's Department of
Chemistry in the early years of the century. Roessler family
endowments support a named professorship in the Department of
Chemistry as well as lecture visits by prominent German chemists.
The 1996-97 Lecturer was Arndt
Simon from the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung,
Germany; followed in 1997-98 by Manfred Reetz from the Max-Planck-Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Germany; Spring 1999 by Gerhard Ertl,
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Spring 2001
by Klaus Möbius, Free University Berlin, Spring 2002
by Matthias Mann, University of Southern Denmark, Spring 2004 by Karl Wieghardt, Max-Planck-Institute, 2005 Herbert Waldmann from The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, and 2006 Albert Eschenmoser from the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Honggerberg.
The Spring 2007 Roessler Lecture will be presented by Konrad Seppelt from the Free University of Berlin. The lecture will take place on March 19, at 4:40 pm in Room 119 Baker Laboratory.
For a list of previous lectures, please click here. |
