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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.
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Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
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Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.
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Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.
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Professor John Hepworth
University of Central Lancashire and RSC Lancaster and District Local Section
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of 深夜福利国产精品 through our Local Sections, governance committees and Board of Trustees.
2020 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor John Plane
University of Leeds, UK
For the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of the impact of cosmic dust in planetary a...
2025 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Professor John Spencer
University of Sussex, UK
For pioneering organic chemistry used to accelerate drug discovery and underpin the development of clinical candidates.
2026 Bader Prize for Organic 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Jonathan Nitschke
University of Cambridge, UK
For the development of polyhedral metal−organic capsules as useful tools for chemical separations.
2026 Tilden Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Jonathan Reid
University of Bristol, UK
For pioneering studies of the chemical and physical properties of micron-scale aerosol particles, and their impact in atmospheric, health, analytic...
2021 Tilden Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Jonathan Sessler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
For pioneering work on f-element complexes of expanded porphyrins.
2022 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Joseph Francisco
University of Pennsylvania, USA
For pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.
2022 Centenary Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品 and Communication
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Julie Macpherson
University of Warwick, UK
For pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material chara...
2023 Tilden Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor K. Barry Sharpless
Scripps Research
For the development of the concept of ‘click’ chemistry, the invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and the impact this continues...
2022 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of 深夜福利国产精品 through the Water Science Forum and the Food Group.
2025 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Karen Faulds
University of Strathclyde, UK
For contributions to the field of surface enhanced spatially offset Raman scattering (SESORRS).
2021 Analytical Science mid-career Prize
Professor Kenneth Suslick
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
For the invention and development of the optoelectronic nose and important contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique.
2021 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
For innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of both molecular simulations and artificial intelligence techni...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Klaus M眉llen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
For developing novel nanomaterials for single-molecule applications, organic electronics, sensing, catalysis, bio-labelling and energy conversion.
2020 Spiers Memorial Award
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 深夜福利国产精品 early career prize: Hickinbottom 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 深夜福利国产精品
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 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Marinella Mazzanti
EPFL
For pioneering molecular f-element chemistry in unusual oxidation states and multimetallic systems for nitrogen activation.
2026 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 深夜福利国产精品
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