Tarrant Distinguished Visiting Professorship:

of Organic Chemistry

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Organic Awards:

M. A. Battiste Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Tarrant Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Organic Chemistry
Tarrant Summer Graduate Research Scholarship
W. M. Jones Award for Originality and Creativity

History

University of Florida Professor Emeritus Paul Tarrant created this professorship to honor the memory of his beloved wives, Viola and Marian. Paul graduated from Duke University and Sanford College and was the first chairman of the fluorine division of the American Chemical Society. In 1966, he received the Florida Award of the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society, which recognizes leadership and contributions toward the advancement of the profession of chemistry. He retired in 1980 after 34 years as professor of chemistry at the University of Florida.

Upcoming Recipient

Masayuki Inoue
The University of Tokyo
November 17 – 24, 2019

Past Recipients

Peter Schreiner Justus-Liebig-University March 12-16 & 19-22, 2019	Masanari Kimura Nagasaki University Sept. 10 – 14, 2018 Tarrant Lecturer
David Lupton Monash University Feb. 26 – Mar. 7, 2018 Tarrant Lecturer	David Leigh The University of Manchester Oct. 13-30, 2017	Ken Houk UCLA Apr. 8-14, 2017	Janine Cossy ESPCI ParisTech Nov. 12-18, 2016
Jye-Shane Yang National Taiwan University Jan. 24-30, 2016 Tarrant Lecturer	Stefan Matile University of Geneva November 30–December 4, 2015	Kyoko Nozaki The University of Tokyo March 17-20, 2015 Tarrant Lecturer	Eric Kool Stanford University September 15-19, 2014
Manfred Reetz Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung March 31-April 10, 2014	David Milstein Weizmann Institute of Science November 11-15, 2013	Shu Wang Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences April 12-18, 2013 Tarrant Lecturer	Martin R. Bryce Durham University March 16-23, 2013
Tetsuro Majima Osaka University February 29, 2012 Tarrant Lecturer	Peter Bäuerle Universität Ulm February 13-17, 2012	Ben Feringa University of Groningen November 7-17, 2011	Herbert Meier Johannes Gutenberg – Universität Mainz Institute of Organic Chemistry April 3-April 7, 2011
John Gladysz Texas A&M Oct. 18-31, 2009 Tarrant Lecturer	Rene Janssen Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) March 30-April 3, 2009	Pierre Audebert Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France)	Hisashi Yamamoto University of Chicago Feb. 2-14, 2009
Philip J. Kocienski University of Leeds (UK) Nov. 1-18, 2007	Haruo Inoue Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) April 14-21, 2007 Tarrant Lecturer	Vladimir I. Minkin Rostov University (Russia) Nov. 4-11, 2006	Francois Diederich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) Sept. 17-Oct. 1, 2005
Nick Turro Columbia University Feb. 6-19, 2005	Irina Beletskaya Moscow State University (Russia) Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 2004	Robert Grubbs California Institute of Technology April 1-14, 2004	Leo E. Manzer DuPont Central Research Feb. 23-27, 2004
E. W. “Bert” Meijer Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) Oct. 5-25, 2003	Michael Makosza Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) April 12-25, 2003	Frank Würthner University of Würzburg (Germany) March 4-7, 2003 Tarrant Lecturer	David Whitten QTL Biosystems Jan. 26 – Feb. 7, 2003
Joachim Schantl Universität Innsbruck (Austria) Mar. 11-21, 2002	Günter Haufe University of Münster (Germany) Jan. 22-Feb. 8, 2002	Josef Michl University of Colorado at Boulder Oct. 1-29, 2001	Goverdhan Mehta Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) May 14-31, 2001
Steven Ley University of Cambridge (UK) March 26-29, 2001	Paul Wender Stanford University Feb. 14-18, 2000	Armin de Meijere University of Gottingen (Germany) Jan. 5-14, 2000	Richard D. Chambers Durham University (UK) Jan. 26-March 25, 1999

Tarrant Distinguished Visiting Professorship:

of Organic Chemistry

History

Upcoming Recipient

Past Recipients

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