Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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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...
2020 Spiers Memorial Award
Professor Liam Ball
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development and mechanistic study of new organic synthesis methods based on pnictogen elements.
2024 Organic Chemistry early career Prize: Hickinbottom Prize
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...
2023 Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize
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...
2020 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
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.
2023 Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry
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...
2023 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
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.
2020 Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
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...
2025 Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal
Professor Matthew Powner
University College London, UK
For pioneering work on the prebiotic synthesis of essential biomolecules including amino acids, peptides and co-factors.
2024 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
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...
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
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...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan, USA
For the development of catalytic C–H functionalization reactions and their applications in organic synthesis.
2020 Catalysis in Organic Chemistry Award
Professor Michael Ashfold
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our member communities and governance groups.
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Michael Bollong
Scripps Research
For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.
2024 RSC Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Professor Michael George
University of Nottingham, UK
For pioneering innovations in flow chemistry, reactor engineering and reaction monitoring for continuous chemical processing.
2022 Interdisciplinary Prize
Professor Michael Ingleson
University of Edinburgh, UK
For new approaches to C–H borylation using zinc catalysts and bis-borane electrophiles.
2024 Dalton mid-career Prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
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...
2021 Nyholm Prize for Education
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...
2022 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
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...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prize
Professor Nicholas Long
Imperial College London, UK
For innovative synthetic chemistry applied to the fields of functional materials and biomedical imaging.
2023 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.
