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Spiers Memorial Lecture and Prize


Spiers Memorial Lecture and Prize Current Winner

Frederick Solomon Spiers
Frederick Solomon Spiers
The Spiers Memorial Lecture and Prize is made to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of the Faraday Discussion. The lecture is delivered in accordance with the terms of a trust founded to keep alive the memory of Frederick Solomon Spiers, a founder of the Faraday Society in 1903 and its secretary and editor throughout the period of its history until his death on 21st May, 1926.

 


Obituary
Trans. Faraday Soc. , 1926, 22, 207
DOI: 10.1039/TF9262200207

Spiers Lectures 2000-

38th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Pavel Jungwirth

Delivered in 2008 on "Ions at aqueous interfaces"


37th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Lia Addadi

Delivered in 2007 on "Lessons from biomineralization: comparing the growth strategies of mollusc shell prismatic and nacreous layers in Atrina rigida"


36th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Roy McWeeny

Delivered in 2006 on "Quantum chemistry: The first seventy years"


35th Spiers Memorial Lecture: James R. Heath

Delivered in 2005 on "Molecular mechanics and molecular electronics"


34th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Geraldine L. Richmond

Delivered in 2004 on "Recent experimental advances in studies of liquid/liquid interfaces"


33rd Spiers Memorial Lecture: Bruce E. Bursten

Delivered in 2003 on "The quantum chemistry of d- and f-element complexes: From an approximate existence to functional happiness"


32nd Spiers Memorial Lecture: Gerhard Ertl

Delivered in 2002 on "Dynamics of surface reactions"


31st Spiers Memorial Lecture: R. E. Miller

Delivered in 2001 on "Comparative studies of cluster dynamics in the gas and condensed phases"


30th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Adam Heller

Delivered in 2000 on "On the hypothesis of cathodic protection of genes"


Spiers Lectures 1980-1999

29th Spiers Memorial Lecture: John P. Simons

Delivered in 1999 on "Stereochemistry and control in molecular reaction dynamics"


28th Spiers Memorial Lecture: William H. Miller

Delivered in 1998 on "Quantum and semiclassical theory of chemical reaction rates"


27th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Joshua Jortner

Delivered in 1997 on "Dynamics: from isolated molecules to biomolecules"


26th Spiers Memorial Lecture: C. Bradley Moore

Delivered in 1995 on "State-resolved studies of unimolecular reactions"


25th Spiers Memorial Lecture: J. Harris

Delivered in 1993 on "Some remarks on surface reactions"


24th Spiers Memorial Lecture: A. Dalgarno

Delivered in 1992 on "The chemistry of astronomical environments"


23rd Spiers Memorial Lecture: John C. Polanyi

Delivered in 1987 on "The dynamics of elementary reactions"


22nd Spiers Memorial Lecture: James A. Morrison

Delivered in 1985 on "The gas-solid interface"


21st Spiers Memorial Lecture: Charles S. Parmenter

Delivered in 1983 on "Vibrational redistribution within excited electronic states of polyatomic molecules"


20th Spiers Memorial Lecture: K. M. Evenson

Delivered in 1981 on "Far-infrared laser magnetic resonance"


Spiers Lectures 1960-1979

19th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Peter A. Egelstaff

Delivered in 1978 on "Structure and dynamics of diatomic molecular fluids"


18th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Dudley R. Herschbach

Delivered in 1977 on "Potential energy surface for bond exchange among three hydrogen molecules"


17th Spiers Memorial Lecture: R. P. Bell

Delivered in 1975 on "The development of ideas about proton transfer reactions"


16th Spiers Memorial Lecture: G. G. Hall

Delivered in 1972 on "Molecular ionization and molecular theory"


15th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Paul J. Flory

Delivered in 1970 on "Thermodynamics of polymer solutions"


14th Spiers Memorial Lecture: G. S. Rushbrooke

Delivered in 1967 on "Structural theories of fluids"


13th Spiers Memorial Lecture: H. C. Longuet-Higgins

Delivered in 1965 on "Intermolecular forces"


12th Spiers Memorial Lecture: G. Herzberg

Delivered in 1963 on "Determination of the structures of simple polyatomic molecules and radicals in electronically excited states"


11th Spiers Memorial Lecture: H. Bloom

Delivered in 1961 on "Structural models for molten salts and their mixtures"


Spiers Lectures before 1960

10th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Th. Forster

Delivered in 1959 on "Transfer mechanisms of electronic excitation"


9th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Herbert S. Harned

Delivered in 1957 on "Some recent experimental studies of diffusion in liquid systems"


8th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Torsten Teorell

Delivered in 1956 on "Transport phenomena in membranes"


7th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Joel H. Hildebrand

Delivered in 1953 on "Models and molecules"


6th Spiers Memorial Lecture: John T. Edsall

Delivered in 1952 on "The molecular shapes of certain proteins and some of their interactions with other substances"


5th Spiers Memorial Lecture: Hugh S. Taylor

Delivered in 1950 on "Catalysis: retrospect and prospect"


4th Spiers Memorial Lecture: William Thomas Astbury

Delivered in 1938 on "X-ray adventures among the proteins"


3rd Spiers Memorial Lecture: Sir William H. Bragg

Delivered in 1934 on "Molecule Planning"


2nd Spiers Memorial Lecture: Robert Ludwig Mond

Delivered in 1931 on "Michael Faraday"


1st Spiers Memorial Lecture: Sir Oliver Lodge

Delivered in 1929 on "Some Debatable Problems in Physics"