Since 1997, a named lecture, the Molecular Physics Lecture sponsored by Taylor & Francis, is given by a prominent scientist. The Molecular Physics Lecturers so far are:
- James K. G. Watson, 1997
- Alan Carrington, 1999
- John M. Brown, 2001
- Richard N. Zare, 2003
- Terry A. Miller, 2005
- Fleming F. Crim, 2007
- Keiichi Tanaka, 2009
- Marsha L. Lester, 2011
- Jürgen Troe, 2013
- Martin Quack, 2015
- John L. Hall, 2017
- Daniel M. Neumark, 2019