Prize winners

Education Community Scotland Committee

For supporting and representing teachers to policymakers, influencing how chemistry is taught in Scotland with notable impact on the curriculum.

Electrical Transport Spectroscopy

For the development of electron transport microscopy to experimentally determine the platinum-surface hydronium pKa and its role in pH-dependent hy...

Electrocatalytic Urea Synthesis Team

For the development of efficient electrocatalysts to support conversion of nitrogen towards a more sustainable and economical method of producing u...

Electron Bifurcation

For discovering the essential structural and redox potential landscapes that are required to generate high-efficiency electron bifurcation reaction...

Elizabeth Driscoll

University of Birmingham and RSC Solid State Chemistry Group

For dedication to supporting the community through the Interest Group and Local Section activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Emily Rose

Pfizer, USA

For outstanding contributions towards the development of synthetic routes and processes for emerging medicines via autonomous high-throughput exper...

Emma Kendrick

University of Birmingham, UK

For discoveries and innovation in materials, manufacturing and recycling of lithium- and sodium-ion batteries.

Enzyme Discovery

For the discovery and engineering of novel enzymes, creating more sustainable pathways to biologically and industrially important molecules.

EPSRC NRF for EPR

2025 Technical Excellence Prize: awarded for outstanding dedication and technical expertise in running the EPSRC UK National Research Facility for...

Eric Appel

Stanford University, USA

For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.

Erin Maciejewski

GSK

For notable contributions to the process development of two novel HIV drugs whilst delivering inclusion and diversity programmes and leadership dev...

Erwin Reisner

University of Cambridge, UK

For pioneering work on solar chemistry, developing devices that capture sunlight and produce sustainable fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide, b...

Exploring Everyday Chemistry

For the development and significant impact of an innovative free online course designed to aid the transition to study chemistry and related degree...

Federico Bella and Grace Han

For outstanding work in the early stages of their careers.

Functional Framework Materials: Design and Characterisati...

For seminal contributions to in situ and operando characterisation of porous materials and catalysts for the binding, capture and separation of fue...

Gas-phase Heterogeneous Catalysis for Solar Fuels Research

2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prize: awarded for defining a chemical approach to nanomaterials leading to efficient gas-phase...

George Burton

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

For the development of outstanding glass-blowing expertise supporting research and teaching nationally and internationally, over nearly four decades.

Georgia Wignall

AstraZeneca, UK

2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and...

Gideon Davies and Paul Walton

For the team's ground-breaking synergistic studies of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase enzymes and insights into the copper histidine brace activ...

Gonçalo Bernardes

University of Cambridge, UK

For the design, development and application of targeted therapeutics including small molecule-based RNA degradation and conditional activation of c...