2025

Title of the seminar: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
Speaker: Prof. J. N. Moorthy
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Date: 16.02.2026, 17:15 hrs
Venue: LH-18

2024

Title of the seminar: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
Speaker: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Date: 08.11.2024, 17:00 hrs
Venue: L16

2023

Title of the seminar: Tiny Giants: Quantum Dots' Big Impact on Science and Industry
Speaker: Dr. Vishal Govind Rao
Date: 12.01.2024, 17:00 hrs
Venue: L16, Lecture Hall Complex

2022

Title: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Speaker: Prof. Sandeep Verma
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Date: 03.02.2023, 5:00 PM
Venue: L17

2019

Speaker: Dr. Sreeraj Puravankara
Affiliation: School of Energy Sciences, IIT Kharaghpur
Date: 09.11.2019
Nobel Prize: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries".

2018

Speaker: Prof. Sandeep Verma
Affiliation: Department of chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Date: 10.11.2018
Nobel Prize: Frances H. Arnold "for the directed evolution of enzymes”, George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies"

2016

Speaker: Prof. J. N. Moorthy
Affiliation: Department of chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Date: 10.11.2016
Nobel Prize: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"

2014

Speaker: Prof. D. Goswami
Affiliation: Department of chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Date: 09.11.2014
Nobel Prize: Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"