Prize winners

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.

Professor Alastair Lewis

University of York and National Centre for Atmospheric Science

For the promotion and application of the chemical sciences to support development of evidence-based policy and regulation in the fields of air poll...

Professor Ali Tavassoli

University of Southampton, UK

2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for the high-throughput intracellular production and screening of cyclic peptide libraries, and their applica...

Professor Alison Hulme

University of Edinburgh, UK

For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry and the organic chemistry community through our member communities and governance groups.

Professor Andrew Baldwin

University of Oxford, UK

For the development and application of chemical methods for understanding the biology of membraneless organelles.

Professor Andrew Beale

University College London, UK

For the development of novel methodologies using bright light sources to identify active species in catalysis and energy storage.

Professor Andrew Goodwin

University of Oxford, UK

For studies of structural complexity in framework materials.

Professor Angela Russell

University of Oxford, UK

For innovation in medicinal chemistry leading to the identification of first in class utrophin modulators for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dy...

Professor Angelos Michaelides

University College London, UK

For outstanding contributions towards the understanding of complex aqueous interfaces and the formation of ice at such interfaces.