Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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Professor Matthew Powner
University College London, UK
For pioneering work on the prebiotic synthesis of essential biomolecules including amino acids, peptides and co-factors.
Professor Matthew Rigby
University of Bristol, UK
For research on the abundances and fluxes of environmentally harmful gases in the atmosphere, which has contributed to a measurable reduction in em...
Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of...
Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan, USA
For the development of catalytic C–H functionalization reactions and their applications in organic synthesis.
Professor Michael Ashfold
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our member communities and governance groups.
Professor Michael Bollong
Scripps Research
For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.
Professor Michael George
University of Nottingham, UK
For pioneering innovations in flow chemistry, reactor engineering and reaction monitoring for continuous chemical processing.
Professor Michael Ingleson
University of Edinburgh, UK
For new approaches to C–H borylation using zinc catalysts and bis-borane electrophiles.
Professor Michael Seery
The Open University
For sustained and substantial scholarship in approaches to teaching and learning chemistry, and for providing leadership and support to others carr...
Professor Michelle Chang
University of California Berkeley, USA
For seminal contributions in biosynthesis and biocatalysis to advance energy and environmental science and biomedical research, and for excellence...
Professor Nguyễn T K Thanh
University College London, UK
For outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary research on fundamental understanding of chemical syntheses, physical studies of plasmonic and m...
Professor Nicholas Long
Imperial College London, UK
For innovative synthetic chemistry applied to the fields of functional materials and biomedical imaging.
Professor Nora de
University of Leeds, UK
For the development and application of computational chemistry to enable atomic-level insights into biomedical materials for in vivo and nature-ins...
Professor Norberto Lopes
University of São Paulo, Brazil
For pioneering analytical and polyomic studies that inform chemical ecology and natural product modes of action.
Professor Omar Yaghi
University of California Berkeley, USA
For the impactful development of water harvesting from desert air using metal–organic frameworks.
Professor Paul Walton
University of York, UK
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in g...
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in...
Professor Peter Bruce
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering research on the chemistry of materials with applications in renewable energy, leading to fundamental changes in our understanding of...
Professor Peter Seeberger
Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces
For the development of automated glycan assembly as a basis for molecular glycobiology and synthetic carbohydrate vaccines.
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for precision polymer chemistry, self-assembly and materials synthesis that demonstrates both fundamental...
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.
