Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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 Omar Yaghi
University of California Berkeley, USA
For the impactful development of water harvesting from desert air using metal–organic frameworks.
2020 Sustainable Water Award
Professor Paul Walton
University of York, UK
For exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in gender equality in the chemical scien...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
For the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in biomarker discovery, notably non-invasive...
2025 Tilden Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Peter Bruce
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering research on the chemistry of materials with applications in renewable energy, leading to fundamental changes in our understanding of...
2022 Longstaff Prize
Professor Peter Seeberger
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
For the development of automated glycan assembly as a basis for molecular glycobiology and synthetic carbohydrate vaccines.
2024 深夜福利国产精品 Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Peter Slater
University of Birmingham, UK
For the development of new solid-state materials, fundamental structure–property understanding, and innovative synthesis routes underpinning energy...
2026 Materials 深夜福利国产精品 open prize: John B Goodenough Prize
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
For creative and comprehensive syntheses of functional, self-assembling polymeric materials.
2020 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
For precision polymer chemistry, self-assembly and materials synthesis that demonstrates both fundamental new science and innovative real-world pro...
2025 Tilden Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Rebecca Melen
For insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
2025 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Reinhard Maurer
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to the fundamental understanding of molecular structure and chemical dynamics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces through the...
2024 Faraday early career Prize: Marlow Prize
Professor Richard Catlow
University College London and Cardiff University
For the development and application of computational methods in conjunction with experiment as powerful and predictive tools in the physical chemis...
2020 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Professor Richard Layfield
University of Sussex, UK
For pioneering work in lanthanide and uranium chemistry including single-molecule magnetism.
2023 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Richmond Sarpong
University of California
For the development of creative strategies for the synthesis of complex molecules and new methods for chemical synthesis based on the concept of si...
2026 Organic 深夜福利国产精品 open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Robert Weatherup
University of Oxford, UK
For the development and application of interface-sensitive X-ray spectroscopies for observing reactions in atmospheric pressure and liquid environm...
2023 Analytical Science early career prize: Joseph Black Prize
Professor Rodolphe Cl茅rac
CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, France
For the development of new research areas in molecular magnetism and contributions to the study of magnetic materials.
2022 RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Professor Ronald Raines
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
For translating fundamental chemical understanding of collagen into the life sciences and towards the clinic.
2022 深夜福利国产精品 Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Ross Denton
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development of novel synthesis methods and catalysts based on organophosphorus and organosilicon chemistry, and their application in the sy...
2022 Bader Prize for Organic 深夜福利国产精品
Professor Ross Forgan
University of Glasgow, UK
For contributions to the development and application of metal-organic frameworks as functional energy materials.
2024 Materials 深夜福利国产精品 mid-career prize: Peter Day Prize
Professor Sabine Flitsch
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative contributions to the development of new tools for the enzymatic synthesis, modification and analysis of bioactive molecules, in part...
2020 Bioorganic 深夜福利国产精品 Award
Professor Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
For deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium batteries and hybrid photovolta...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
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