History of the S.C. Lind Lecture Series

Dr. Lind was born and reared in McMinnville, Tennessee, and was the first native Tennessean to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Lind received an A.B. degree from Washington and Lee University in 1899 and a S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute Technology in 1902. He studied in Ostwald's laboratory in Leipzig and received his Ph.D. degree in 1905 for work in gas kinetics with Bodenstein. In 1910, Dr. Lind conducted postdoctoral research in radiation chemistry at Madame Curie's laboratory in Paris.

In 1913, he joined the U.S. Bureau of Mines as an expert in radioactivity. He worked in Colorado and succeeded in extracting eight grams of radium from carnotite. Of the first radium produced in the United States, a half-gram was made available to Dr. Lind, shich he used throughout his research career.

In 1926, he returned to academic life as Director of Chemistry and then as Dean of the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota. After his retirement in 1947, Dr. Lind returned to Tennessee, and was a technical consultant for the Oak Ridge facilities. From 1951 to 1954, was Acting Director of the Chemistry Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Dr. Lind published of 140 research articles during his scientific career. He is noted for his authoritative monographs of The Chemical Effects of Alpha Particles and Electrons, first published in 1921 and The Radiation Chemistry of Gases, published in 1961. Dr. Lind was editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry from 1933 to 1951 and served on the boards of Chemical Abstracts, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Chemical Monographs. He was president of both the Electrochemical Society and the American Chemical Society and was the recipient of the ACS Priestly Medal in 1952.

Dr. Lind was a faithful attendee of the Local Section meetings. He was the recipient of the East Tennessee Lectureship Award in 1953. It was on the occasion of his Fiftieth Anniversary as a member of the American Chemical Society that the lectureship was renamed in his honor. Dr. Lind was robust and active in his work and play until his death at the age of 85. This came on February 12, 1965, in the waters below Norris Dam while Dr. Lind was engaged in his favorite hobby, trout fishing.

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East Tennessee Lecturers:

1948 Edward Mack, Jr.
1949 Linus C. Pauling
1950 Hobart H. Willard
1951 Izaak M. Kolthoff
1952 William A. Noyes, Jr.

S. C. Lind Lecturers:

1958 C. S. Marvel
1959 Herbert C. Brown
1960 Michael Kasha
1961 Peter Debye
1962 F. Albert Cotton
1963 Herbert A. Laitinen
1964 Bryce L. Crawford, Jr.
1965 Konrad Bloch
1966 Farrington Daniels
1967 Paul von R. Schleyer
1968 John C. Bailar, Jr.
1969 Milton Burton
1970 Paul Delahay
1971 G. H. Cartledge
1972 Roald Hoffman
1973 Harold C. Urey
1974 Joel Hildebrand
1975 Henry Eyring
1976 John D. Roberts
1977 Ellison H. Taylor
1978 Ronald Breslow
1979 Harry Gray
1980 Glenn T. Seaborg
1981 James P. Collman
1982 Michel Boudart
1983 Nicholar Turro
1984 James R. Arnold
1985 Kenneth S. Pitzer

1953 Samuel C. Lind
1954 L. F. Audrieth
1955 G. B. Kistiakowski
1956 Harvey Diehl
1957 W. F. Libby

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1986 Fred McLafferty
1987 William R. Busing
1988 Rudolph A. Marcus
1989 Robert G. Bergman
1990 Allen J. Bard
1991 Henry Taube
1992 Richard E. Smalley
1993 S. J. Danishefsky
1994 Larry R. Faulkner
1995 Tobin J. Marks
1996 Robert H. Grubbs
1997 Mostafa El-Sayed
1998 Julius Rebek, Jr.
1999 Richard N. Zare
2000 John E. Bercaw
2001 Frank Bates
2002 Robert Curl
2003 Paul A. Wender
2004 Royce W. Murray
2005 James A. Dumesic
2006 David Tirrell
2007

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