Each year, the Chemistry Department at UniFr selects a top-level scholar for its prestigious Chaim Weizmann Lecture. After one year break, Chemistry Department is continuing with Chaim Weizmann Lectures with Prof. Dr. Christer Kiselman, Mathematics Professor, University of Uppsala, Sweden, Member of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences and with  Prof. Dr. Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 2001 (together with Leland Hartwell & Tim Hunt) 

***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.