Previous Julian C. Smith Lectures
- 2008 - Carol Hall, North Carolina State University
- 2006 - Lanny Schmidt, University of Minnesota
- 2005 - George Georgiou, University of Texas at Austin
- 2004 - Gerald G. Fuller, Stanford University
- 2003 - Klavs Jensen- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2002 - Sang-Tae Kim, Lilly Research Laboratories
- 2001 - Robert S. Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2000 - Alice P. Gast, Stanford University
- 1999 - Mark E. Davis, California Institute of Technology
- 1998 - Douglas A Lauffenburger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1997 - Robert A. Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1996 - L. Gary Leal, University of California at Santa Barbara
- 1995 - H. Ted Davis, University of Minnesota
- 1994 - Matthew V. Tirrell, University of Minnesota
- 1993 - James F. Bailey, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
- 1992 - Andreas Acrivos, City College, City University of New York
- 1991 - Michel Boudart, Stanford University
- 1990 - John H. Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology
- 1989 - John M. Prausnitz, University of California at Berkeley
- 1988 - R. Byron Bird, University of Wisconsin