Below is a list of our esteemed Merck-Pfister Lecturers.
- 2023–2024 Geoff Coates (Cornell University)
- 2022–2023 T. Don Tilley (UC Berkeley)
- 2021–2022 Zhenan Bao (Scripps Research Institute)
- 2019–2020 Cathleen Crudden (Queens University)
- 2018–2019 Marc A. Hillmyer (University of Minnesota)
- 2017–2018 Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Nagoya University)
- 2016–2017 M.G. Finn (Georgia Tech)
- 2015–2016 Kyoko Nozaki (University of Tokyo)
- 2014–2015 Eric Anslyn (University of Texas, Austin)
- 2012–2013 Makoto Fujita (University of Tokyo)
- 2011–2012 Christopher Bielawski (University of Texas, Austin)
- 2011–2012 Craig Hawker (UC Santa Barbara)
- 2010–2011 François Diederich (ETH Zürich)
- 2009–2010 Takuzo Aida (University of Tokyo)
- 2008–2009 C. Dale Poulter (University of Utah)
- 2007–2008 Harry L. Anderson (University of Oxford)
- 2006–2007 Roeland Nolte (University of Nijmegen)
- 2005–2006 Fred Wudl (UCLA)
- 2002–2003 E. W. Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology)
- 2001–2002 Jeffrey S. Moore (University of Illinois)
- 1999–2000 David Tirrell (Caltech)
- 1998–1999 Maurice Brookhart (University of North Carolina)
- 1996–1997 Jean Fréchet (UC Berkeley)
- 1995–1996 Dennis Curran (University of Pittsburgh)
- 1994–1995 Dan Rich (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
- 1993–1994 Robert Grubbs (Caltech)