Organic Division Initiatives:
M. A. Battiste Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Tarrant Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Organic Chemistry
Tarrant Summer Graduate Research Scholarship
W. M. Jones Award for Originality and Creativity
History
University of Florida Professor Emeritus Paul Tarrant (1914–2014) created this professorship to honor the memory of his beloved wives, Viola and Marian. Paul graduated from Duke University (Ph.D.), Purdue (M.S.), and Howard College (B.S.) and started his career at UF in 1946. He is credited with the first “sponsored” research program at UF (1948) and was the first Chair of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Fluorine Chemistry. In 1966, he received the Florida Award of the Florida Section of the ACS, which recognizes leadership and contributions toward the advancement of the profession of chemistry. He retired in 1980 after 34 years of service to the University of Florida.
Upcoming Recipient
Harry Anderson
University of Oxford
3/31/2025 – 4/3/2025
Past Recipients
 Professor Armido Studer Organisch-Chemisches Institute WWU September 23rd – October 4th, 2024 |  Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberger Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces April 1st – 11th, 2024 | ||
 Takuzo Aida The University of Tokyo November 26th, 2023 – December 2nd, 2023 |  Helma Wennemers Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich January 25th – 30th, 2023 |  Michael Sherburn The Australian National University September 26th – October 7th, 2022 |  Peter J. Stang The University of Utah April 11th – April 14, 2022 |
 Benjamin Davis University of Oxford February 10th – 14th, & 17th-20th, 2020 |  Masayuki Inoue University of Tokyo November 17th – 24th, 2019 |  Peter Schreiner Justus-Liebig-University March 12th – 16th, & 19th – 22nd, 2019 |  Masanari Kimura Nagasaki University September 10th – 14th, 2018 Tarrant Lecturer |
 David Lupton Monash University February 26th – March 7th, 2018 Tarrant Lecturer |  David Leigh The University of Manchester October 13th – 30th, 2017 |  Ken Houk UCLA April 8th – 14th, 2017 |  Janine Cossy ESPCI ParisTech Nov. 12th – 18th, 2016 |
 Jye-Shane Yang National Taiwan University January 24th – 30th, 2016 Tarrant Lecturer |  Stefan Matile University of Geneva November 30th – December 4th, 2015 |  Kyoko Nozaki The University of Tokyo March 17th – 20th, 2015 Tarrant Lecturer |  Eric Kool Stanford University September 15th – 19th, 2014 |
 Manfred Reetz Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung March 31st – April 10th, 2014 |  David Milstein Weizmann Institute of Science November 11th – 15th, 2013 |  Shu Wang Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences April 12th – 18th, 2013 Tarrant Lecturer |  Martin R. Bryce Durham University March 16th – 23rd, 2013 |
 Tetsuro Majima Osaka University February 29th, 2012 Tarrant Lecturer |  Peter Bäuerle Universität Ulm February 13th – 17th, 2012 |  Ben Feringa University of Groningen November 7th – 17th, 2011 |  Herbert Meier Johannes Gutenberg – Universität Mainz Institute of Organic Chemistry April 3rd – April 7th, 2011 |
 Pierre Audebert Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) December 8th – 14th, 2009 |  John Gladysz Texas A&M October 18th – 31st, 2009 |  Rene Janssen Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) March 30th – April 3rd, 2009 |  Hisashi Yamamoto University of Chicago February 2nd – 14th, 2009 |
 Philip J. Kocienski University of Leeds (UK) November 1st – 18th, 2007 |  Haruo Inoue Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) April 14th – 21st, 2007 Tarrant Lecturer |  Vladimir I. Minkin Rostov University (Russia) November 4th – 11th, 2006 |  Francois Diederich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) September 17th – October 1st, 2005 |
 Nick Turro Columbia University February 6th – 19th, 2005 |  Irina Beletskaya Moscow State University (Russia) October 31st – November 7th, 2004 |  Robert Grubbs California Institute of Technology April 1st – 14th, 2004 |  Leo E. Manzer DuPont Central Research February 23rd – 27th, 2004 |
 E. W. “Bert” Meijer Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) October 5th – 25th, 2003 |  Michael Makosza Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) April 12th – 25th, 2003 |  Frank Würthner University of Würzburg (Germany) March 4th – 7th, 2003 Tarrant Lecturer |  David Whitten QTL Biosystems January 26th – February 7th, 2003 |
 Joachim Schantl Universität Innsbruck (Austria) March 11th – 21st, 2002 |  Günter Haufe University of Münster (Germany) January 22nd – February 8th, 2002 |  Josef Michl University of Colorado at Boulder October 1st – 29th, 2001 |  Goverdhan Mehta Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) May 14th – 31st, 2001 |
 Steven Ley University of Cambridge (UK) March 26th – 29th, 2001 |  Paul Wender Stanford University February 14th – 18th, 2000 |  Armin de Meijere University of Gottingen (Germany) January 5th – 14th, 2000 |  Richard D. Chambers Durham University (UK) January 26th – March 25th, 1999 |