Nathan Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at the
California Institute of Technology, will present “Where in the World
Will Our Energy Come From?” Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored through
the Walter P. Dyke Endowment, honoring the Linfield alumnus and faculty
member who was known as a strong teacher, innovative scientist and
researcher, and philanthropist.

Lewis will discuss what it will take for the world to get away from
fossil fuels and switch over to renewable energy, including the
technical, political and economic hurdles that will need to be overcome
before renewable energy technologies will be widely adopted. Converting
to wind, solar thermal, solar electric, biomass, hydroelectric and
geothermal energy will not only take planning but also investment in
research and development, a variable price per unit of energy to get it
produced, and plenty of resources to create the energy sources.

Lewis has been on the faculty at Caltech since 1988. Since 1992, he has
also been the principal investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular
Materials Resource Center. He previously taught at Stanford University.
He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Teacher-Scholar and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received the
Fresenius Award, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the Orton Memorial
Lecture, the Princeton Environmental Award, and the Michael Faraday
Medal of the Royal Society of Electrochemistry. He is currently the
editor-in-chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Energy &
Environmental Science. He has published over 300 papers and has
supervised approximately 60 graduate students and postdoctoral
associates. His research interests include artificial photosynthesis and
electronic noses.