The IBM Endowed Lectures in the Sciences are funded by a gift to Wittenberg from the IBM Corporation. The lectures are designed to bring to campus distinguished scholars to enhance the role and image of science on a liberal arts campus and to bring about a larger understanding and appreciation of science as a most crucial contemporary exercise.
1982–1983 Peter J. Hilton, Professor of Mathematics, State University of New York, Binghamton
1983–1984 Melvin Calvin, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1984–1985 Joseph Weizenbaum, Professor of Computer Science and member of the Laboratory for Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985–1986 Donella and Dennis Meadows, Professors at the Resource Policy Center, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
1986–1987 Margery Shaw, Physician, Lawyer, and Biomedical Ethicist
1987–1988 Philip Morrison, Physicist, and Phylis Morrison, Science Educator
1988–1989 Maclyn McCarty, M.D., Biomedical Researcher, Physician, and Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller University
1989–1990 Ronald L. Graham, Head of the Mathematical Studies Center, Bell Laboratories
1990–1991 John (Jack) R. Horner, Curator of Paleontology, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana
1991–1992 James S. Trefil, Physicist
1992–1993 Robert J. Sternberg, Cognitive Psychologist
1993–1994 Bernadine P. Healy, M.D., Former Head of the National Institutes of Health, Physician, and Educator
1994–1995 Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D., Paleontologist and Evolutionary Biologist
1995–1996 James Burke, Science Historian, Author, and Educator
Virginia L. Trimble, Astronomer and Astrophysicist
1996–1997 John R. Searle, Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley
1997–1998 Sylvia A. Earle, Marine Biologist
1998–1999 Sandra L. Postel, Conservationist and Environmentalist, Class of 1978
1999–2000 Robert Zubrin, Astronautics and Aeronautics Engineer
2000–2001 John Allen Paulos, Mathematician
2001–2002 Brian Greene, Physicist
2002–2003 Elwood W. Jensen '40, Cancer Researcher and Endocrinologist,
2003–2004 E. O. Wilson, Biologist
2005-2006 Lawrence M. Krauss, Physicist
2006-2007 Dan P. McAdams, Psychologist