Each year, the Chemistry Department selects a top-level scholar for its prestigious Chaim Weizmann Lecture. On October 15th 2021, Professor Katharina Fromm welcomed Prof. Dr. Christer Kiselman, Mathematics Professor, University of Uppsala, Sweden; Member of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences with his speech "A life with Mathematics and Languages". 

Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, was also a renowned chemist, and received his PhD from UniFr over one century ago, in 1899, before contributing to creating the Weizmann Institute near Tel-Aviv.