Monday, 29 June 1998
The Important Role of the Tropics in the Self-Cleaning Capacity of the Atmosphere 11:30 - 12:10 F. Sherwood Rowland
Trace Gas Chemistry in the Cities and Over the Oceans 15:00 - 15:40 Robert Curl Jr.
The Dawn of the Fullerenes: A Research Adventure 15:40 - 16:10 Sir Harold Kroto
C60-Buckminsterfullerene: Not just a Pretty Molecule
Tuesday, 30 June 1998
Regulation in Yeast Chorismate Mutase, a Simple Allosteric Enzyme 09:40 - 10:40 Robert Huber
Structure Analysis of Large Electronmicroscopy and X-ray Crystallography 10:40 - 11:20 Herbert Brown
A General Asymmetric Synthesis Based on Chiral Organoboranes 11:20 - 12:00 George Olah
Mitigating Global Warming Through Chemistry: Recycling Carbon Dioxide into Useful Fuels and Hydrocarbon Products 16:00 - 17:00 Paul Boyer
What Laureates Might Want to Know About the 1997 Chemistry Prize
Wednesday, 1 July 1998
Structural Chemistry and Quantum Mechanics 09:40 - 10:40 Rudolf Mößbauer
Gamma Resonance Spectroscopy 10:40 - 11:20 Hartmut Michel
From Photosynthesis to Respiration: Structure and Function of Energy Transforming Membrane Protein Complexes 11:20 - 12:00 Lecture Johann Deisenhofer
Structure and Function of the Cytochrome bc1-Complex from Bovine Heart
Thursday, 2 July 1998
Experiment and its Stimulation of Theories of Chemical Reaction Rates and Related Phenomena 09:40 - 10:40 John Polanyi
Aligning Molecules and Zapping them with Lasers: How and why 10:40 - 11:20 Michael Smith
First Lessons from the Human Genome Project 11:20 - 12:00 Mario Molina
Environmental Challenges for the 21st Century
Friday, 3 July 1998
08:00 - 18:00
Boat Trip
Boat-Trip to the Isle of Mainau for Laureates and students