Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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Professor Emma Raven
University of Bristol, UK
For seminal contributions to understanding the roles of heme in biology.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prize
Professor Enrique Iglesia
University of California Berkeley, USA
For outstanding contributions to the mechanistic understanding of catalysis, leading scientific innovation for environmental protection and the pro...
2023 Faraday open Prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Professor Eric Anslyn
University of Texas at Austin, USA
For exploiting supramolecular interactions and dynamic covalent bonding to generate assays of practical utility, and for communicating the exciteme...
2020 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Euan Brechin
University of Edinburgh, UK
For outstanding contributions to synthetic coordination chemistry and molecular magnetism.
2024 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Fernanda Duarte
University of Oxford, UK
For introducing multidisciplinary approaches to rationalise complex (bio)chemical reaction mechanisms, guiding rational molecular design.
2021 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Professor Fidele Ntie-Kang
University of Buea, Cameroon
For making a significant contribution to a natural product related area of the chemical sciences in their independent research careers.
2024 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Professor Frank Vanhaecke
Ghent University, South Korea
For the development of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) based methodologies for elemental, isotopic and single-event analysis.
2023 Analytical Science open Prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Franziska Schoenebeck
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2025 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences: awarded for highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reacti...
2025 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Professor Geoffrey Maitland
Imperial College London, UK
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our publishing activities and governance groups.
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Gita Sedghi
University of Liverpool, UK
For outstanding contributions to excellence in higher education teaching and for having transformative impact on the student experience.
2023 Excellence in Higher Education Prize
Professor Harry Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For work on the synthesis and investigation of pi-conjugated macrocycles and new carbon allotropes.
2024 Organic Chemistry open Prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Helen Cooper
University of Birmingham, UK
For the development of native ambient mass spectrometry as an analytical technique to enable direct analysis and imaging of intact proteins and pro...
2022 Analytical Science open Prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Igor Larrosa
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Robert Robinson Prize: awarded for contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.
2025 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prize: Robert Robinson Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Professor J. Paul
University of Edinburgh, UK
For transformative discoveries of new materials from high pressure synthesis and of novel electronic phenomena in solids.
2022 Materials Chemistry open prize: John B Goodenough Prize
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
2025 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry: awarded for insights into the photophysics of first row transition metal complex...
2025 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
For the combined application of synthesis and ultrafast spectroscopy to advance our understanding of the excited-state dynamics of transition metal...
2020 Chemical Dynamics Award
Professor James Tour
Rice University, USA
For innovations in materials chemistry, with applications in medicine and nanotechnology.
2020 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Jan Verlet
Durham University, UK
For pioneering contributions to the spectroscopy and dynamics of anions in the gas-phase and at aqueous interfaces.
2023 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Jason Hallett
Imperial College London, UK
For pioneering work on the development of ionic liquids as commercially relevant solvents in biorefining and the circular economy.
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open Prize: Environment Prize
Professor Jason Micklefield
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative research spanning organic chemistry to molecular genetics, leading to the discovery, characterisation, and engineering of many novel...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prize
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.
