The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by a grant from the Watkins Foundation. E. A. Watkins was vice president of the Union National Bank, Wichita, in 1936 when he acquired a small iron foundry and wholesale hardware firm that he built into Watkins, Inc., a major steel fabrication and industrial supply company. His son, E. Leon Watkins, a 1936 University alumnus, succeeded his father as president of the firm. After Leon Watkins death in 1971, his widow, Roberta - who also is a WSU alumna - announced that the Watkins' Foundation board of trustees had determined that "the sole project of the foundation shall be the support of the Watkins visiting Professorship at Wichita State University. The departments of biological sciences, chemistry, geology, and physics share the professorship.
Lecturers
Dr. Naida Loskutoff, October 16 and 17, 2007
Dr. Massimo Pigliucci, February 26 and 27, 2007
Dr. Rick Karban, November 2 and 3, 2005
Dr. Food Doolittle, September 20 and 21, 2004
Dr. Clyde Snow, April 28 and 29, 2004
Dr. Ricki Lewis, October 14 and 15, 2003
Dr. Niles Eldredge, October 9 and 10, 2001
Dr. Alan Feduccia, October 31 and November 1, 2001
Dr. Stuart Sealfon, October 7 and 8, 2002
Dr. William Hurlbut, October 23 and 24, 2002
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Ungar, Georges |
Baylor College of Medicine |
December/1975 |
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Morrison, John F. |
John Curtin |
April/1977 |
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Rich, Alexander |
Massachusetts Inst. Of Technology |
February/1978 |
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Katz, J. Lawrence |
Rensselaer polytechnic Institute |
March/1978 |
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Stebbins, Robert C. |
University of California |
March/1978 |
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Finegold, Leonard X. |
Drexel University |
April/1978 |
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Kaltenbach, Jane C. |
Mount Holyoke College |
April/1978 |
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Brown Jr., Frank A. |
Marine Biological Lab |
April/1978 |
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Green, Elmer E. |
Menninger Foundation |
May/1978 |
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Vallee, Bert L. |
Harvard Medical School |
May/1978 |
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Gray, Harry Barkus |
California Institute of Technology |
December/1978 |
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Tobias, Cornelius A. |
University of California |
December/1978 |
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Hopfield, John J. |
Princeton University |
February/1979 |
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Northcutt, R. Glenn |
University of Michigan |
March/1979 |
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Crothers, Donald M. |
Yale University |
March/1979 |
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Moss, Gerald |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
April/1979 |
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Suyama, Yoshitaka |
University of Pennsylvania |
May/1979 |
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Simberloff, Daniel |
Florida State University |
September/1979 |
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Chargaff, Erwin |
Columbia University |
November/1979 |
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Cameron, A. G. W. |
Harvard College Observatory |
December/1979 |
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Kaplan, Nathan O. |
University of California |
March/1980 |
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Gunsalus, I. C. |
University of Illinois |
April/1980 |
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Frauenfelder, Hans |
University of Illinois |
May/1980 |
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Calvin, Melvin |
University of California |
November/1980 |
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Blumberg, William E. |
Bell Laboratories |
November/1980 |
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Hoffman, Brian M. |
Northwestern University |
April/1981 |
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Woodwell, George M. |
Marine Biology Lab |
May/1981 |
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Hutchinson, Franklin |
Yale University |
August/1981 |
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Hood, Leroy E. |
California Inst. Of Tech. |
September/1981 |
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Fox, Sidney W. |
National Foundation for Cancer Research |
November/1981 |
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Feher, George |
University of California |
November/1981 |
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Schimmel, Paul |
Mass. Institute of Tech. |
November/1981 |
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Leonard, N. J. |
School of Chemical Sciences |
March/1982 |
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Smith, Hobart M. |
University of Colorado |
March/1982 |
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Beidler, Lloyd |
Florida State University |
April/1982 |
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Lehninger, Albert L. |
Johns Hopkins University |
November/1982 |
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Wilkins, Maurice |
Emeritus Prof. of Biophysics |
November/1982 |
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Margulis, Lynn |
Boston University |
March/1983 |
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Klotz, Irving M. |
Northwest University |
April/1983 |
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Olson, Everett C. |
University of California |
April/1983 |
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Eichhorn, Gunther |
National Institutes of Health |
October/1983 |
| Karl Djerassi | Stanford University |
April/1990 |
| Stephen Gould | Harvard University |
October/1990 |
| Lawrence Hurley | University of Texas |
December/1990 |
| Elias Greenbaum | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
January/1991 |
| Richard Wolfenden | University of North Carolina School of Medicine |
March/1991 |
| Thomas Spelsburg | Mayo Clinic |
April/1991 |
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Kolff, Willem Johan |
University of Utah |
Septembr/1991 |
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Marshall, Garland R. |
Washington University School of Medicine |
April/1992 |
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Borchardt, Ronald T. |
University of Kansas |
April/1992 |
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Powers, Linda S. |
Utah State University |
April/1992 |
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Valentine, Joan Selverstone |
University of California |
October/1992 |
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Wolynes, Peter G. |
University of Illinois |
February/1993 |
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Hubbard, Ruth |
Harvard University |
March/1993 |
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Simpson, Evan R. |
University of Texas |
April/1993 |
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Krantz, Allen |
Syntex Research, Canada |
April/1993 |
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Karplus, Martin |
Harvard University |
May/1993 |
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Hauptman, Herbert |
Medical Foundation of Buffalo |
October/1993 |
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Eldredge, Niles |
American Museum of Natural History |
October/1993 |
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Karger, Barry L. |
Northeastern University |
November/1993 |
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Bakker, Robert |
University of Colorado |
April/1994 |
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Ratner, Buddy D. |
University of Washington |
April/1994 |
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Sessler, Jonathon |
University of Texas |
October/1994 |
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Crow, James F. |
University of Wisconsin |
January/1995 |
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Hendee, William R. |
Medical College of Wisconsin |
March/1995 |
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Lipscomb Jr., William |
Harvard University |
April/1995 |
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Olson, Eric |
University of Texas |
April/1995 |
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Martin, Yvonne C. |
Abbott Laboratories |
April/1995 |
| Luther Williams | National Science Foundation |
February/1996 |
| Keith Solomon | University of Guelph |
February/1996 |
| Leroy Hood |
University of Washington School of Medicine |
March/1996 |
| Arnold Arons | Univesity of Washington |
April/1996 |
| Shelia Tobias | Author |
April/1996 |
| Richard Alley | Pennsylvania State University |
March/1997 |
| Fred MacKenzie | University of Hawaii |
March/1997 |
| Robert Berner | Yale University |
April/1997 |
| Daniel B. Botkin | George Mason University |
April/1997 |
| Julius Rebek | Scripps Research Institute |
November/1997 |
| Robert Ginsburg | University of Miami |
December/1997 |
| Robert M. Bigsby | Indiana University School of Medicine |
March/1998 |
| H. Leon Bradlow | Rockefeller University |
March/1998 |
| Theo Colborn | World Wildlife Fund |
March/1998 |
| Robert J. Kavlock | National Health & Environmental Effects Research Laboratory |
March/1998 |
| Dolores Lamb | Baylor College of Medicine |
March/1998 |
| Joachim Liehr | Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research |
March/1998 |
| Daniel M. Sheehan | National Center for Toxicological Research |
March/1998 |
| Ana M. Soto | Tufts Unviersity School of Medicine |
March/1998 |
| Frederick S. Vom Saal | University of Missouri |
March/1998 |
| William Rathje | Arizona Garbage Project |
March/1999 |
| Inder Verma | Salk Institute |
April/1999 |
| Robert Ballard | Institute for Exploration |
September/1999 |
| Colleen Cavanaugh | Harvard University |
October/1999 |
| Peter Glynn | University of Miami |
November/1999 |
