Keys Lectures

David Keys graduated from Trinity College in 1915 with the Governor-General's Medal for highest standing and the Ludon Gold Medal in Physics. He earned PhDs at both Harvard and Cambridge before joining the McGill physics department in 1922, where he taught special classes during the Second World War that trained 2,000 radar technicians for the RCAF. Following the war, he was appointed vice-president in charge of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, where he retired in 1971. The Keys Lectures were established in his honour in 1978.

Date	Lecture
2007-08	Professor Mark Lautens, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, AstraZeneca Professor of Organic Synthesis, NSERC/Merck Frosst Industrial Research Chair, *Meddling with Metals: Organic Synthesis and the Value of Catalysts in Medicinal Chemistry*
2006-07	Richard (Dick) J. Bond, Director, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, *The First Light in the Universe and Cosmic Evolution*
2004-05	Josef Penninger, Scientific and Administrative Director IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, *Night Science*
2002-03	Richard C. Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz, Research Professor, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, *The Co-evolution of Organisms and the Environment*
2000-01	Endel Tulving, *Why We Are What We Are: Consciousness and Human Evolution*
1998-99	Malcolm Gladwell, Chief Science Writer for the New Yorker, *The Ultimate Post-Modern Social Problem*
1993-94	Robert B. Salter, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, *Euthanasia: A Personal Perspective*
1992-93	Hermione de Almeida, Professor of English, Research Professor in the History of Science, University of Tulsa, *Reading Life: Romantic Medicine and John Keats*
1991-92	Ronald G. Worton, Geneticist-in-Chief, Hospital for Sick Children; professor, Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, *Research in Human Genetics: Dramatic Insights, Genetic Disease: Challenging Questions for Society*
1989-90	Northrop Frye, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Toronto, *Literature as Therapy - Observations on Science and Literature* - jointly sponsored with Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute
1988-89	Rebecca Cann, Assistant Professor of Genetics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, *The Dating of Eve: the Origins of Mankind*
1986-87	Ivan L. Head Illya Prigogine
1985-86	Lewis Branscomb
1984-85	Bernhard Ulrich
1983-84	Kenneth G. Wilson, Nobel Laureate in Physics, - jointly sponsored with Department of Physics, University of Toronto
1982-83	David H. Hubel, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, jointly sponsored with Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
1981-82	Reid A. Bryson
1980-81	Janez Stanovnick
1979-80	Robert J. Uffen
1978-79	J. Tuzo Wilson