The Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials

The Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering honors the memory of Professor Nelson W. Taylor (1869 - 1965) who was head of Penn State’s Department of Ceramics from 1933 - 1943. During his tenure as department head, Dr. Taylor refined the ceramics undergraduate curriculum, strengthened the graduate program, expanded ties with industry, and was able to attract important scientists (for example Woldemar A. Weyl) to the faculty. He is recognized as the individual most responsible for establishing the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences as a major center for ceramics research. The Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series was established in 1969, and has consistently attracted scientists of international prominence.



	2013 TAYLOR LECTURER P.M. AJAYAN Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor of Engineering, Rice University Putting Nanostructures in Place More...


	2012 TAYLOR LECTURER SUBRA SURESH Director, National Science Foundation Biomechanics and Human Diseases More...


	2010 TAYLOR LECTURER CHAD A. MIRKIN George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University Polyvalent DNA Nanostructures: A New Frontier in Materials Synthesis, Biodiagnostics, and Intracellular Gene Regulation More...


	2009 TAYLOR LECTURER TOBIN J. MARKS Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University Interface Engineering of Tailored Interfaces for Organic Opto-Electronics and Photovoltaics More...


	2008 TAYLOR LECTURER JOHN B. GOODENOUGH Professor, The University of Texas at Austin; Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair of Engineering Lessons from Transition-Metal Oxides More...


	2007 TAYLOR LECTURER TIMOTHY P. LODGE Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota Hierarchical Self-assembly in Block Copolymer Micelles More...


	2006 TAYLOR LECTURER LAWRENCE L. KAZMERSKI Director, National Center for Photovoltaics National Renewable Energy Laboratory Photovoltaic Materials Science: Evolution, Disruption, and Revolution More...


	2005 TAYLOR LECTURER MARVIN L. COHEN University Professor, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley; President, American Physical Society Quantum alchemy and reflections on the WYP 2005 and Einstein More...


	2004 TAYLOR LECTURER ROBERT S. LANGER Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Materials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering More...


Former Taylor Lecturers

1970 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013	John Saylor Horst Scholze Clarence Zener Gene Haertling Linus Pauling Herman Mark Cyril Smith John A. Duffie Elburt F. Osborn Edward Teller Turner Alfrey, Jr. Morris Cohen Irving Wender W. Dave Kingery William. O. Baker Pierre-Gille deGennes Julian. Szekely Paul B. Weisz David W. Johnson, Jr. Makoto Kikuchi Sir Samual Edwards Mats Hillert Richard Balzhiser Richard E. Smalley Gerhard Wagner Thomas W. Eagar Larry Hench Alan G. MacDiarmid John Price Hirth George Craford Charles M. Lieber Robert S. Langer Marvin L. Cohen Lawrence Kazmerski Timothy P. Lodge John B. Goodenough Tobin J. Marks Chad A. Mirkin Subra Suresh P.M. Ajayan