Prize winners

Nicky Waller

Centre for Industry Education Collaboration, University of York

For sustained contributions to the professional development of primary teachers in the teaching of science.

Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants

2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and characterization of reactive ligands for high-valent iron-oxo oxidants.

NPL Air Quality Networks Team

For outstanding application of knowledge and teamwork to produce 20 years of robust, high-quality air pollutant data for three of the UK’s air qual...

NSF Center for Molecularly Optimized Networks

For demonstrating the potential and impact of embedded mechanochemical reactivity on the mechanical limits of cross-linked polymer networks.

Orbitrap Astral Team

2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a mass analyser, enabling faster and more sensitive analysis from single cell...

Paolo Melchiorre

University of Bologna, Italy

For the development of asymmetric photocatalytic methodologies based on excited state intermediates.

Paolo Samorì

Université de Strasbourg, France

For pioneering work on the use of supramolecular and nano-chemistry to manufacture multifunctional nanomaterials and devices.

Particle Characterisation Group

2025 Inspirational Committee Award: awarded for proactively engaging technicians through an inclusive programme at their FORGE 2024 conference.

Paul Dyson

EPFL, Switzerland

For major advances in the catalytic transformations of renewable substrates leading to industrial processes and products.

Paul Jones

Bitrez Ltd.

For the creation of UK businesses that are globally recognised for innovating speciality polymers employing green chemistry principles.

Paul Wender

Stanford University, USA

For extraordinary contributions encompassing groundbreaking advancements in synthesis, photochemistry, organometallic chemistry, medicinal chemistr...

PERIODically: the podcast that covers all things periods...

For sparking discussion around the challenges menstrual periods create for people working in higher education, acting as advocates to help remove s...

Pilgrim School Science Department

For planning and facilitating a move from theoretical to hands-on practical science, for a broad age range of students with special educational med...

Pioneers in Hybrid Glass Research

2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and development of hybrid glasses, a new family of glasses separate to known inorganic, organi...

PISCO Team

2025 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of new photochromic dyes for use in semi-transparent solar cells with light tra...

Pizza Model Approach for Raising the Employability of Che...

For the collaborative design and implementation of regional, national and international activities which embed transferable skills and employabilit...

Plymouth Science CIC

For creating innovative teaching resources that enable children to work scientifically and demonstrate their skills and creativity through a hands-...

Polarisation Photocatalysis

For the development of polarisation photocatalysis using spontaneous electric fields in polar materials to mitigate charge carrier recombination, p...

Professor Alan Goldman

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

For deep and scholarly insight into the mechanisms of organometallic reactions and the design of organometallic catalysts.

Professor Alan Mackie

University of Leeds, UK

For the impact his research and scientific contributions have had in the field of food chemistry.