Below is a list of our esteemed Büchi Lecturers.
- 2023–2024 Erick Carreira (ETH Zürich)
- 2022–2023 Véronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford)
- 2021–2022 David W.C. MacMillan (Princeton University)
- 2018–2019 Dale L. Boger (Scripps Research Institute)
- 2017–2018 Alois Fürstner (Max-Planck-Institute)
- 2016–2017 Eiichi Nakamura (University of Tokyo)
- 2015–2016 Dirk Trauner (University of Münich)
- 2014–2015 Peter Seeberger (Max-Planck, Potsdam)
- 2013–2014 Phil Baran (Scripps Research Institute)
- 2012–2013 Carolyn Bertozzi (UC Berkeley)
- 2011–2012 Julius Rebek (PhD ’70) (Scripps Research Institute)
- 2010–2011 Justin DuBois (Stanford University)
- 2009–2010 Laura Kiessling (SB ’83) (then appointed at University of Wisconsin–Madison)
- 2008–2009 Amos B. Smith (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2007–2008 William Fenical (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
- 2006–2007 Huw Davies (University of Buffalo)
- 2005–2006 Jonathan Ellman (SB ’84) (UC Berkeley)
- 2004–2005 Ronald Breslow (Columbia University)
- 2003–2004 Peter Leadlay (University of Cambridge)
- 2002–2003 Tohru Fukuyama (University of Tokyo)
- 2001–2002 Dennis A. Dougherty (Caltech)
- 2000–2001 Jack Baldwin (Oxford University)
- 1999–2000 George Milne (PhD ’69) (Pfizer Central Research)
- 1998–1999 Masakatsu Shibasaki (University of Tokyo)
- 1997–1998 Samuel Danishefsky (Sloan Kettering/Columbia University)
- 1996–1997 K. Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research Institute)
- 1995–1996 Andy Myers (Caltech)
- 1994–1995 K.C. Nicolaou (Scripps Research Institute)
- 1993–1994 Larry Overman (UC Irvine)
- 1992–1993 Albert Eschenmoser (ETH Zürich)
- 1991–1992 Clayton Heathcock (UC Berkeley)
- 1990–1991 Jack Roberts (Caltech)
- 1989–1990 Gilbert Stork (Columbia University)
- 1988–1989 Dieter Seebach (ETH Zürich)
- 1984–1985 Sidney Hecht (University of Virginia)
- 1983–1984 Robert Abeles (Brandeis University)
- 1981–1982 Jeremy Knowles (Harvard University)
- 1980–1981 Koji Nakanishi (Columbia University)
- 1979–1980 Heinz Floss (Purdue University)