Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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Hayley Simon
University College London, UK
For outstanding and innovative research on the conservation of Mary Rose iron cannonballs, which has produced unique insights to the field of conse...
2020 Ronald Belcher Award
Iain McCulloch
Princeton University, USA
For advances in the design, synthesis and innovative application of functional materials in optics, electronics, and energy.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prize
Iseult Lynch
University of Birmingham, UK
For enhanced understanding of the role of biomolecule-nanomaterials interactions and the ecological corona in environmental fate and toxicity of na...
2020 John Jeyes Award
Katty O'Brien-Quilty
Thames Water
For proficiency in a variety of analytical techniques and serving as a fantastic advocate and brand ambassador for apprenticeships, chemistry and T...
2020 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
University of Sydney, Australia
For the development of commercialised ingestible sensors for gut disorders, gas sensors for pollutants and point-of-care biosensors.
2020 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: Robert Boyle Prize
Mark Thompson
University of Southern California, USA
For the discovery and development of inorganic molecular materials for flat panel displays and lighting, combining insights into the photophysical...
2020 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize: Stephanie L Kwolek Prize
Martin Heeney
KAUST, Saudi Arabia
For pioneering contributions to solution processed organic semiconductors, particularly heavy main group containing polymers, and their device appl...
2020 Materials Chemistry mid-career Prize: Peter Day Prize
Melanie Cooper
Michigan State University, USA
For outstanding accomplishments in designing, implementing and evaluating evidence-based chemistry curricula and catalysing the careers of many che...
2020 Education Award
Paolo Samorì
Université de Strasbourg, France
For pioneering work on the use of supramolecular and nano-chemistry to manufacture multifunctional nanomaterials and devices.
2020 RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Paul Dyson
EPFL, Switzerland
For major advances in the catalytic transformations of renewable substrates leading to industrial processes and products.
2020 Green Chemistry Award
Professor Alan Goldman
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
For deep and scholarly insight into the mechanisms of organometallic reactions and the design of organometallic catalysts.
2020 Dalton mid-career Prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Andrew Baldwin
University of Oxford, UK
For the development and application of chemical methods for understanding the biology of membraneless organelles.
2020 Chemistry Biology Interface early career Prize: Norman Heatley Award
Professor Angelos Michaelides
University College London, UK
For outstanding contributions towards the understanding of complex aqueous interfaces and the formation of ice at such interfaces.
2020 Surfaces and Interfaces Award
Professor Barry Trost
Stanford University, USA
For continued wide ranging contributions to the development of new synthetic methods employing transition metal catalysts, and the application of t...
2020 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Professor Bonnie Ann Wallace
Birkbeck, University of London
For the pioneering development of biophysical methods and bioinformatics tools to enable the characterisation of ion channel-drug molecule complexes.
2020 Chemistry Biology Interface open Prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Chris Abell
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering work on fragment-based drug discovery and microfluidic microdroplets.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prize
Professor Chris Willis
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding contributions across the broad spectrum of natural product chemistry.
2020 Natural Product Chemistry Award
Professor Christiane Timmel
University of Oxford, UK
For seminal contributions to the fields of spin chemistry and electron paramagnetic resonance.
2020 Tilden Prize for Chemistry
Professor Christopher Hunter
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering a quantitative description of non-covalent interactions and establishing key principles in supramolecular design to create duplex-fo...
2020 Supramolecular Chemistry Award
Professor Daryl Williams
Imperial College London and Surface Measurement Systems Limited
For the pioneering invention of the dynamic vapour sorption instrument, which has transformed research laboratory practise worldwide.
2020 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year
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.
