Fritz London Memorial Lecture Presented by Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

The Department of Chemistry is will be hosting Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Princeton University) on Monday, April 20, 2026 for the Fritz London Memorial Lecture.

The Fritz London Memorial Lectures have brought to the scientific community a distinguished group of lecturers including twenty-four Nobel laureates. The scientific interests of each lecturer impinge at one or more points upon the various fields of physics and chemistry to which Fritz London contributed. London came to Duke in 1939 as Professor of Chemistry and was later appointed Professor of Chemistry and Physics. While at Duke, he predicted that light helium should show a different type of degeneracy at low temperatures, typical of a substance obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics. At Duke University's Low Temperature Laboratory, this prediction was verified a few days before his death. Only months before, in 1953, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science awarded London the Lorentz Medal in recognition of his scientific accomplishments.

We look forward to hosting Prof. Hammes-Schiffer. Learn more about the Hammes-Schiffer lab and their work on the development and application of theoretical and computational methods to understand the fundamental physical principles underlying chemical processes here:
https://chemistry.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/sharon-hammes-schiffer/