ChemTALKs has hosted a speaker every year since hosting George Hammond in 1963. We have been extremely fortunate to have hosted several Nobel Laureates at our campus. The bolded names are Nobel Laureates with the year they were awarded the prize.
- George Hammond (1963)
- Harold Urey (1964) – 1934
- Andrew Streitwieser (1965)
- Richard Bernstein (1966)
- Irving Klotz (1967)
- Carl Djerassi (1968)
- John Polanyi (1969) – 1986
- Ralph Person (1970)
- George Pimentel (1971)
- Ronald Breslow (1972)
- William Jencks (1973)
- Charles Reilly (1974)
- Paul Flory (1975) – 1974
- James Collman (1976)
- Ralph Hardy (1977)
- Herbert Brown (1978) – 1979
- Nicholas Turro (1979)
- Harry Gray (1980)
- Gabor Somorjai (1981)
- Roald Hoffman (1982) – 1981
- Gilbert Stork (1983)
- Ralph Adams (1984)
- Mildred Cohn (1985)
- Kenneth Pitzer (1986)
- Tobin Marks (1987)
- Yuan Lee (1988) – 1986
- Allen Bard (1989)
- Peter Schultz (1990)
- Jacqueline Barton (1991)
- David Evans (1992)
- Mark Wrighton (1993)
- Robert Crabtree (1994)
- Peter Kim (1995)
- Mercouri Kanatzidis (1996)
- Peter Armentrout (1997)
- Paul Wender (1998)
- Robert Grubbs (1999) – 2005
- Clayton Heathcock (2000)
- Dave Clark (2001)
- Eric T. Kool (2002)
- Alan Marshall (2003)
- Richard J. Saykally (2004)
- Richard Schrock (2005) – 2005
- Fraser J. Stoddart (2006) – 2016
- Daniel G. Nocera (2007)
- William R. Roush (2008)
- John F. Hartwig (2009)
- Chad Mirkin (2010)
- Vincent Rotello (2011)
- Xialong Sunney Xie (2012)
- T. Don Tilley (2013)
- Robert S. Langer (2014)
- George M. Whitesides (2015)
- Omar M. Yaghi (2016)
- David W. C. MacMillan (2017) – 2021
- Peidong Yang (2018)
- Cynthia Friend (2019)
- Melanie Sanford (2020)
- Yogesh Surendranath (2021)
- Tehshik P. Yoon (2022)
- Raychelle Burks (2023)