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2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations
Celebrating our 2026 Prize winners
Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels. Explore our prize winners to find profiles, see photo galleries, get insights into their work, and read a question and answer session with the prize winner.
Research & Innovation Prize winners
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Horizon Prize winners
Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
Inclusion and Diversity Prize winner
Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.
Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.
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Professor Harry Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For work on the synthesis and investigation of pi-conjugated macrocycles and new carbon allotropes.
2024 Organic 深夜福利国产精品 open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Helen Cooper
University of Birmingham, UK
For the development of native ambient mass spectrometry as an analytical technique to enable direct analysis and imaging of intact proteins and pro...
2022 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Helen Hailes
University College London, UK
For the design of innovative biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic strategies for molecular assembly, and the enzymatic upcycling of waste biomass and br...
2026 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Ifan Stephens
Imperial College London, UK
For pioneering contributions to non-aqueous electrochemistry, including the discovery of efficient systems for nitrogen reduction, and new characte...
2026 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Igor Larrosa
University of Manchester, UK
For contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.
2025 Organic 深夜福利国产精品 mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor J. Paul
University of Edinburgh, UK
For transformative discoveries of new materials from high pressure synthesis and of novel electronic phenomena in solids.
2022 Materials 深夜福利国产精品 open prize: John B Goodenough Prize
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
For the combined application of synthesis and ultrafast spectroscopy to advance our understanding of the excited-state dynamics of transition metal...
2020 Chemical Dynamics Award
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
For insights into the photophysics of first row transition metal complexes leading to advances in earth-abundant photoredox catalysis.
2025 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 深夜福利国产精品
Professor James Tour
Rice University, USA
For innovations in materials chemistry, with applications in medicine and nanotechnology.
2020 Centenary Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品 and Communication
Professor Jan Verlet
Durham University, UK
For pioneering contributions to the spectroscopy and dynamics of anions in the gas-phase and at aqueous interfaces.
2023 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Jason Hallett
Imperial College London, UK
For pioneering work on the development of ionic liquids as commercially relevant solvents in biorefining and the circular economy.
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Professor Jason Micklefield
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative research spanning organic chemistry to molecular genetics, leading to the discovery, characterisation, and engineering of many novel...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Javier P茅rez-Ram铆rez
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
For connecting catalyst design, reaction engineering, and sustainability metrics to develop new catalytic technologies that enable circular carbon...
2026 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Professor Jeffrey Long
University of California Berkeley, USA
For pioneering work in the synthesis and characterization of inorganic molecules and materials exhibiting new physical phenomena.
2020 Ludwig Mond Award
Professor Jennifer Leigh
University of Kent, UK
For leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting systemic discrimination, and amplifyin...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Professor Jianliang Xiao
University of Liverpool, UK
For outstanding contributions to catalysis, both in fundamental studies and commercial application.
2020 Tilden Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Jiashu Sun
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China
Winner 2024: For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.
2024 Lab on a Chip and ALine Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship
Professor Johannes Awudza
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of 深夜福利国产精品 in Ghana and through the Pan-African 深夜福利国产精品 Network.
2022 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of 深夜福利国产精品 through the development and support for the analytical science community and the School's...
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region
For dedication to the planning, coordination and ongoing development of the Schools Analyst Competition.
2020 Inspirational Member Award
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