Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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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...
2023 Interdisciplinary Prize
Professor Norberto Lopes
University of São Paulo, Brazil
For pioneering analytical and polyomic studies that inform chemical ecology and natural product modes of action.
2020 Chemistry Biology Interface mid-career Prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Professor Omar Yaghi
University of California Berkeley, USA
For the impactful development of water harvesting from desert air using metal–organic frameworks.
2020 Sustainable Water Award
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...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
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...
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry
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...
2022 Longstaff Prize
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.
2024 Chemistry Biology Interface open Prize: Khorana Prize
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...
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
For creative and comprehensive syntheses of functional, self-assembling polymeric materials.
2020 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Rebecca Melen
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize: awarded for insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
2025 Dalton mid-career Prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Reinhard Maurer
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to the fundamental understanding of molecular structure and chemical dynamics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces through the...
2024 Faraday early career Prize: Marlow Prize
Professor Richard Catlow
University College London and Cardiff University
For the development and application of computational methods in conjunction with experiment as powerful and predictive tools in the physical chemis...
2020 Faraday open Prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Professor Richard Layfield
University of Sussex, UK
For pioneering work in lanthanide and uranium chemistry including single-molecule magnetism.
Professor Robert Weatherup
University of Oxford, UK
For the development and application of interface-sensitive X-ray spectroscopies for observing reactions in atmospheric pressure and liquid environm...
2023 Analytical Science early career Prize: Joseph Black Prize
Professor Rodolphe Clérac
CNRS - Universit? de Bordeaux
For the development of new research areas in molecular magnetism and contributions to the study of magnetic materials.
2022 RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Professor Ronald Raines
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
For translating fundamental chemical understanding of collagen into the life sciences and towards the clinic.
2022 Chemistry Biology Interface open Prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Ross Denton
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development of novel synthesis methods and catalysts based on organophosphorus and organosilicon chemistry, and their application in the sy...
Professor Sabine Flitsch
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative contributions to the development of new tools for the enzymatic synthesis, modification and analysis of bioactive molecules, in part...
2020 Bioorganic Chemistry Award
Professor Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Environment Prize: awarded for deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open Prize: Environment Prize
Professor Samson Jenekhe
University of Washington, USA
2025 de Gennes Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to synthetic chemistry, physics, and applications of conjugated polymers.
2025 Materials Chemistry open Prize: de Gennes 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.
