Since 2009, Prof. Katharina Fromm is the organizer of the Chaim Weizmann Lectureships at the Chemistry Department.

For more information, visit the Chemistry Department site: (here); Agenda (here)

2021: Paul Nurse, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medecine along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.

2020: Christer Kiselman, Mathematics Professor, University of Uppsala, Sweden,Member of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences: “A life with Mathematics and Languages”.

2019: Randy Schekman, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medecine along with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for the Discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.

2018: Erwin Neher, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medecine for the Discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells.

2017: Felicitas Pauss for her outstanding work with particle physics at the high-energy frontier and astrophysics.

2016: Rolf Zinkernagel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medecine for his innovative work in the immune system and the recognition of virus-infected cells.

2015: Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and the development of conductive polymers. Besides the Nobel Prize in 2000, he won the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in 1983 and the Balzan Prize in 1995.

2014: Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medecine along Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans for there pioneering research on epigenetics.

2013: Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his outstanding discovery of quasicrystals. This discovery revolutionized the definition of the word “crystal”.

2012: Carl Djerassi for his pioneering work in the development of the oral contraceptive pills, which enormously influenced our society.

2010: Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his ground-breaking and still on-going developments in theconcepts of supramolecular chemistry.

2009: Ada E. Yonath, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her outstanding contributions in the elucidation of the structure and reactivity of the ribosome by initiating ribosomal crystallography. In addition, she has some parallels with the scientific career of Chaim Weizmann.