Tarrant Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Organic Chemistry

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

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

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