Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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Professor John Hepworth
University of Central Lancashire and RSC Lancaster and District Local Section
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our Local Sections, governance committees and Board of Trustees.
Professor John Plane
University of Leeds, UK
2025 Faraday Lectureship Prize: awarded for the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of...
Professor Jonathan Reid
University of Bristol, UK
For pioneering studies of the chemical and physical properties of micron-scale aerosol particles, and their impact in atmospheric, health, analytic...
Professor Jonathan Sessler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
For pioneering work on f-element complexes of expanded porphyrins.
Professor Joseph Francisco
University of Pennsylvania, USA
For pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge, UK
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.
Professor Julie Macpherson
University of Warwick, UK
For pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material chara...
Professor K. Barry
Scripps Research
For the development of the concept of ‘click’ chemistry, the invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and the impact this continues...
Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through the Water Science Forum and the Food...
Professor Kenneth Suslick
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
For the invention and development of the optoelectronic nose and important contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique.
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
Professor Klaus Müllen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
For developing novel nanomaterials for single-molecule applications, organic electronics, sensing, catalysis, bio-labelling and energy conversion.
Professor Leigh Canham
University of Birmingham, UK
For pioneering work in silicon quantum dots and contributions to practical applications of silicon nanostructures in the electronics, photonics and...
Professor Liam Ball
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development and mechanistic study of new organic synthesis methods based on pnictogen elements.
Professor Ludmilla Steier
University of Oxford, UK
For seminal contributions to the understanding of defect chemistry in semiconducting materials and interfacial energetics in photocatalytic and pho...
Professor Madhavi Krishnan
University of Oxford, UK
For the invention of a ‘field free’ trap for confining and manipulating a single colloidal particle or molecule, enabling accurate and precise meas...
Professor Marc Vendrell
University of Edinburgh, UK
For the design and synthesis of activatable fluorophores, and their application in high-resolution biological imaging and translational medicine.
Professor Mark Grinstaff
Boston University, USA
For pioneering advances and translational research using innovative polymer platforms for new drug delivery systems and medical applications, and f...
Professor Martin Schröder
University of Manchester, UK
For seminal work on the design, synthesis and characterization of porous metal-organic framework materials for substrate binding and selectivity.
Professor Martina Letizia Contente
University of Milan, Italy
For her internationally groundbreaking contributions to chemical biotechnology with a particular focus on biocatalysis for the sustainable producti...
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.
