Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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Graeme Day
University of Southampton, UK
For pioneering the development of computational methods for guiding the discovery of functional molecular crystals.
2023 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Green Circular Solvent Team
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize: awarded for a partnership that has demonstrated a diverse range of applications of the bio-derived, non-...
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize
Greenhead College Chemistry Department
For enhancing and enriching the chemistry learning of a huge and diverse group of students by offering a high quality and broad chemistry education...
2022 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
Grégoire Bastide, Anna Remund, Dina Oosthuizen, Nina Derr...
Paper: Handheld device quantifies breath acetone for real-life metabolic health monitoring
2023 Sensors & Diagnostics Outstanding Early Career Research Award
Hanna Breunig and Dongliang Chao
For outstanding emerging investigators working in an energy research topic within the scope of the journal Energy and Environmental Science.
2023 EES Lectureship
Haritz Sardon
University of the Basque Country, Spain
For making significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career.
2024 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship
Harm Reduction
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on pol...
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: Sir George Stokes Prize
Harriet Bean
BASF, USA
For major contributions towards the future sustainability of production plants through improvements to process safety, asset effectiveness, through...
2024 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Hayley Simon
University College London, UK
For outstanding and innovative research on the conservation of Mary Rose iron cannonballs, which has produced unique insights to the field of conse...
2020 Ronald Belcher Award
High-Performance Nanozyme Designer
For the development of rational design strategies for high performance nanozymes and exploration of their biomedical applications.
2023 Dalton Horizon Prize
Holger Braunschweig
University of Wuerzburg, Germany
For contributions to the chemistry of reactive low-oxidation-state main-group molecules, including their applications in catalysis.
2021 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
House of Science New Zealand
For the development of a vast library of hands-on, bilingual science resource kits that enable thousands of primary school teachers across New Zeal...
2022 Horizon Prize for Education
Iain McCulloch
Princeton University, USA
For advances in the design, synthesis and innovative application of functional materials in optics, electronics, and energy.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prize
In-cell Organometallic Redox Catalysis
For pioneering work on catalysis of redox reactions in cancer cells by synthetic organometallic complexes.
2022 Dalton Division Horizon Prize
Inorganic Amorphous Nanomaterials
For innovative methods for controllable synthesis of materials combining high strength and high toughness.
2024 Dalton Division Horizon Prize
Iseult Lynch
University of Birmingham, UK
For enhanced understanding of the role of biomolecule-nanomaterials interactions and the ecological corona in environmental fate and toxicity of na...
2020 John Jeyes Award
Jenny Nelson
Imperial College London, UK
For contributions to the understanding and development of novel electronic materials for solar energy conversion.
2024 Faraday open Prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Jessie Stow
Astex Pharmaceuticals
For outstanding contributions to drug discovery through the introduction of a viable biocatalytic workflow able to generate useful quantities of sy...
2024 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Jonathan Steed
Durham University, UK
For work in the understanding, control and application of the assembly of molecular materials in the crystal and gel state.
2021 Tilden Prize for Chemistry
Joshua Piggott
St Nicholas' C of E First School
For dedication, enthusiasm and effectiveness in the delivery of quality-first science pedagogy for children aged 4–9, while breaking down the stere...
2021 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Yearly celebrations
Each year we recognise individuals and teams from a wide range of career stages, sectors and backgrounds – highlighting the breadth of talent and the variety of ways people contribute to progress in our field.