The lecture will be held in Faraday Hall West 200 on NIU's campus. College and high school students are especially encouraged to attend.
Admission is free.
Pauling won the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into chemical bonding and was awarded the 1963 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end open-air nuclear weapons testing. He also was famous for his promotion of Vitamin C. Like his mentor decades earlier, Lipscomb won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1976 for his contributions to the study of chemical bonding. In a career spanning more than half a century, Lipscomb has published more than 600 scientific papers and, even though he retired from teaching nearly a decade ago, continues to do research and publish. Several of his papers address the biological applications of boron chemistry, in particular a novel cancer treatment called Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. He is an avid reader, with a particular fancy for the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.