The Bruker Lecture

Since 1986 Bruker Spectrospin Limited have sponsored an annual Lectureship, with accompanying prize, to be given by a scientist who has made a major scientific contribution with ESR.



  • 23st: "ψ (EPR)ENDOR" Professor Edgar Groenen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 22st: "High-field ENDOR - opportunities and frustrations" Professor Daniella Goldfarb, Weizmann Institute, Israel
  • 21st: "Pulsed Dipolar ESR Spectroscopy and its Applications" Professor Yuri D. Tsvetkov, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • 20th: "EPR - an Exciting Topic?" Professor Klaus-Peter Dinse, University of Darmstadt, Germany
  • 19th: "Watching Proteins Move with Site-Directed Spin labeling" Professor Wayne L. Hubbell, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A
  • 18th: "Signals from the reaction center. Applications of EPR in photosynthesis", Professor Wolfgang Lubitz, Max-Planck-Institute, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
  • 17th: "Interacting electron spins", Professors Sandra and Gareth Eaton, University of Denver, U.S.A.
  • 16th: "Free radicals and transition metal ions: local probes of structure and function in biological systems", Professor Jurgen Hüttermann, University Des Saarlandes, Germany
  • 15th: "EPR of transition metal ions. A tale of symmetry and of symmetry breaking", Professor Dante Gatteschi, University of Firenze, Italy
  • 14th: "High frequency EPR studies of paramagnetic inorganic and bio-inorganic systems", Professor Jan Schmit, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 13th: "ESR spectroscopy: past history, present status and future prospects", Professor John R. Pilbrow, Monash University, Australia
  • 12th: "Physical chemistry through electron spin polarization", Professor Keith A. McLauchlan, University of Oxford, U.K.
  • 11th: "ENDOR of metalloenzymes", Professor Brian M. Hoffman, Northwestern University, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • 10th: "Discoveries with ESR", Professor H. M. McConnell, Stanford University, California, U.S.A.
  • 9th: "Creation and detection of coherence and polarization in pulsed EPR", Professor Arthur Schweiger, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 8th: "The nuclear Zeeman interaction in electron resonance", Professor Neil M. Atherton, University of Sheffield, S. Yorks., U.K.
  • 7th: "EPR and ENDOR investigations of the primary reactions in bacterial photosynthesis", Professor George Feher, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
  • 6th: "EPR, ENDOR and ESEEM on Fe(CN)63- in alkali halides", Professor E. de Boer, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • 5th: "Modern techniques in ESR", Professor Jack H. Freed, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.
  • 4th: "Alternatives to field modulation in ESR spectroscopy", Professor James S. Hyde, National Biomedical ESR Center, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
  • 3rd: Electron spin resonance in the study of transient free radicals, Professor Hans Fischer, Zurich
  • 2nd: "Multiple resonances involving ESR, NMR, and optical transitions: more than just a game?", Professor Klaus Möbius, Free University Berlin.
  • 1st: "Application of Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy to the study of the effects of ionising radiation on DNA and DNA complexes", Professor Martyn C. R. Symons, Leicester University, U.K.