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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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Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Professor Mark Grinstaff
Boston University, USA
For pioneering advances and translational research using innovative polymer platforms for new drug delivery systems and medical applications, and f...
2023 Centenary Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品 and Communication
Professor Martin Schr枚der
University of Manchester, UK
For seminal work on the design, synthesis and characterization of porous metal-organic framework materials for substrate binding and selectivity.
2020 Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Mathew Horrocks
University of Edinburgh, UK
For the development and application of single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy approaches to understand how proteins aggregate in neurodege...
2022 Analytical Science early career prize: Joseph Black Prize
Professor Mathew Horrocks
University of Edinburgh, UK
For the generation of single-molecule fluorescence microscopy approaches for visualising protein aggregates in neurodegenerative disease and protei...
2026 深夜福利国产精品 Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Professor Matthew Powner
University College London, UK
For pioneering work on the prebiotic synthesis of essential biomolecules including amino acids, peptides and co-factors.
2024 Organic 深夜福利国产精品 mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor Matthew Rigby
University of Bristol, UK
For research on the abundances and fluxes of environmentally harmful gases in the atmosphere, which has contributed to a measurable reduction in em...
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Professor Matthias Driess
Technical University Berlin, Germany
For creativity in organometallic and materials chemistry, particularly the synthesis of new classes of silicon-based catalysts and advanced energy...
2026 Centenary Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品 and Communication
Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of-the-art in lithium-ion systems.
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan, USA
For the development of catalytic C–H functionalization reactions and their applications in organic synthesis.
2020 Catalysis in Organic 深夜福利国产精品 Award
Professor Michael Ashfold
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of 深夜福利国产精品 through our member communities and governance groups.
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Michael Bollong
Scripps Research
Winner 2025: For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.
2025 RSC Medicinal 深夜福利国产精品 Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Professor Michael George
University of Nottingham, UK
For pioneering innovations in flow chemistry, reactor engineering and reaction monitoring for continuous chemical processing.
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Michael Ingleson
University of Edinburgh, UK
For new approaches to C–H borylation using zinc catalysts and bis-borane electrophiles.
2024 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Michael Seery
The Open University
For sustained and substantial scholarship in approaches to teaching and learning chemistry, and for providing leadership and support to others carr...
2021 Nyholm Prize for Education
Professor Michelle Chang
University of California Berkeley, USA
For seminal contributions in biosynthesis and biocatalysis to advance energy and environmental science and biomedical research, and for excellence...
2022 Centenary Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品 and Communication
Professor Neil Garg
University of California Los Angeles, USA
For challenging long-standing paradigms in organic chemistry through the creative generation and use of strained intermediates in synthesis, and fo...
2026 Centenary Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品 and Communication
Professor Nguy峄卬 T K Thanh
University College London, UK
For outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary research on fundamental understanding of chemical syntheses, physical studies of plasmonic and m...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Nicholas Long
Imperial College London, UK
For innovative synthetic chemistry applied to the fields of functional materials and biomedical imaging.
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
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 Prizes
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 深夜福利国产精品 Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
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