The Howard lectures are delivered at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney by a scientist who has pre-eminence in the area of Organic Chemistry or a related discipline.
The lectures are funded by a bequest left to both Universities in 1993 by the late Harold Theodore Howard. Howard obtained his B.Sc. from Sydney University and graduated from Sydney Teachers College in Chemistry and Organic Chemistry (Pure and Applied).
He taught chemistry for many years (1925-62) and upon retirement in 1966 carried out further research in saponins and steroid chemistry as an Honorary Research Associate at Macquarie University (1966-77) and the University of New South Wales (1978-85).
A complete list of the previous Howard Lecturers is given below.
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â P. B. Dervan, California Institute of Technology
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â A. G. Myers, California Institute of Technology
1996      J.-M. Lehn, Collège de France, Paris and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â E. C. Constable, University of Basel
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â C. H. Heathcock, University of California, Berkeley
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Sir H. W. Kroto, University of Sussex
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â P. A. Wender, Stanford University
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â J. S. Moore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â J. Rebek Jr., The Scripps Research Institute
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â C. Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â A. Hamilton, Yale University
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â M. Reza Ghadiri, Scripps Research Institute
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â S. Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â C.-H. Wong, Scripps Research Institute
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â J. Hartwig, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â G. Molander, University of Pennsylvania
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â C. A. Hunter, University of Sheffield
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â P. Baran, Scripps Research Institute
2013 Â Â Â A. Phillips, Yale University
2014 Â Â Â S. B. H. Kent, University of Chicago
2015    M. G. Finn, Georgia Institute of Technology
2016Â Â Â P. H. Seeberger, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
2017Â Â Â Â A. E. Rowan, University of Queensland
2018Â Â Â J. L. Sessler, University of Texas at Austin
2019Â Â Â C. Richert, University of Suttgart