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Interest group prizes

Many of our interest groups administer their own prizes that recognise significant contributions to their fields and areas of interest.

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Interest groups are subject specialist networks focused on a specific area or application of the chemical sciences. They are run by a committee of volunteer RSC members who work to support, promote and connect their network.

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Applied Catalysis Award

Recognising significant contributions to applied catalysis, typically where there is potential or actual commercial application.

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Allan Ure Memorial Bursary

Recognising early career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the application of atomic spectrometry to environmental science.

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The Becquerel Medal Award

Recognising those who have made an outstanding contribution in research and/or teaching in radiochemistry over a significant period of time.

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Bill Newton Award

Recognising individuals for a recent outstanding contribution to any aspect of radiochemistry.

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BMCS Lectureship

Recognising those who have made a significant advance in biological and medicinal chemistry through developing new products or methods.

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BMCS Hall of Fame and Medal

Recognising those who have made a significant, sustained, scientific impact in the field of medicinal chemistry, agriscience or chemical biology.

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Bob Hay Lectureship

Recognising early career chemists working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in its widest sense.

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BRSG-NMRDG Prize for Excellent Contribution to Magnetic Resonance

Recognising early career researchers for excellence in the field of magnetic resonance.

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Brian Kelly Award

Supporting students and early career researchers to attend the annual World Carbon Conference.

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Bruker Thesis Prize

Recognising outstanding work by PhD students in the field of electron spin resonance spectroscopy.

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Bruker Prize and Lecture

Recognising scientists who have made a major scientific contribution to the field of electron spin resonance spectroscopy.

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BTM Willis Prize

Recognising a single outstanding piece of work, or a longer term coherent body of work, in the application of neutron scattering science.

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Capps Green Zomaya Award

Recognising work in medicinal or computational medicinal chemistry.

Closes - 31 October 2025

CBBG Lectureship

Recognising excellent contributions of mid-career scientists to both research and to the UK community in chemical biology and bioorganic chemistry.

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The Cyril Keattch Award

Recognising an outstanding early career scientist working in the field of thermal analysis or calorimetry.

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Dextra Carbohydrate 九州影院 Award

Recognising a early/mid career scientist for outstanding work in carbohydrate chemistry that has largely been conducted in the UK.

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Duncan Bryant Award

Recognising young analytical scientists working or studying in the pharmaceutical sector.

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Elizabeth Colbourn Memorial Lecture

Recognising exceptional scientists working at the cutting edge of formulation science and technology.

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Faraday Medal

Recognising outstanding achievements made by a mid-career researcher from outside of the UK and Ireland.

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Fluorine 九州影院 Award

Recognising the most outstanding contribution of a younger chemist, working in any area of fluorine chemistry.

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Food Group Early Career Medal

Recognising outstanding contributions to food chemistry by early career researchers.

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Food Group Open Medal

Recognising outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences in the area of food chemistry.

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Geoffrey Barker Medal

Recognising electrochemists working in the UK or Ireland for their contributions to any field of electrochemistry.

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Geoffrey Phillips Analytical Science Award

Recognising early career researchers in the field of pharmaceutical analytical science.

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Haworth Memorial Lectureship

Recognising sustained, internationally significant contributions to carbohydrate chemistry.

Closes - 31 January 2026

IBDG Emerging Investigator Award

Recognising outstanding contributions to any area of biological inorganic chemistry or inorganic biochemistry by early career scientists.

Closes - 01 December 2025

IBDG Investigator Award

Recognising outstanding contributions to any area of biological inorganic chemistry or inorganic biochemistry.

Closes - 01 December 2025

Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Early Career Award

Recognising excellence in the field by those in the early stages of their career.

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JEOL Prize and Lecture

Recognising PhD students and first-year postdoctoral researchers for work with electron spin resonance spectroscopy.

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Jon Weaver PhD Prize

Recognising PhD students that have displayed an outstanding ability in the field of polymer science.

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Katharine Burr Blodgett Award

Recognising researchers working in the field of colloid and interface science that have been awarded a PhD degree within the past year.

Closes - 09 July 2025

Knox Medal

Recognising individuals for their innovative or influential work in the field of separation science.

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Lennard-Jones Lectureship

Recognising scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.

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LS Theobald Lectureship

Recognising those who have made a significant contribution to analytical chemistry.

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Macro Group UK Medal

Recognising UK-based scientists who have made a significant and substantial contribution to polymer science and to the UK polymer science community.

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Macro Group UK Medal for Outstanding Achievement

Recognising international scientists that have made continued, outstanding achievements in the field of polymer science.

Closes - 31 October 2025

Macro Group UK Early Career Researchers' Medal

Recognising early career UK-based scientists whose contributions to polymer science show outstanding promise for the future.

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MASC Group Thesis Award

Recognising doctoral students working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in its widest sense.

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Malcolm Campbell Memorial Award

Recognising outstanding research in chemistry and its application to the understanding of bioactivity.

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McBain Medal

Recognising the contribution of younger scientists in the field of colloid, interface and surface science.

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The AstraZeneca Protein and Peptide Science Award

Recognising excellence in any area of protein and peptide science.

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Michael J Gait Lectureship

Recognising world-renowned scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the areas of the chemistry and/or biochemistry of nucleic acids.

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Polanyi Medal

Recognising individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of gas kinetics.

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Polymer Physics Group Prize for Best Student Publication

Recognising the best publication in a journal on a topic of relevance to polymer physics.

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Radiochemistry Group Young Researcher's Award

Recognising early career researchers in the field of radiochemistry.

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Roger Parsons Medal Award

Recognising independent early career electrochemists working in the UK or Ireland for contributions to any field of electrochemistry.

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Sheelagh Campbell Award

Recognising individuals studying for a PhD in a UK or Irish university or research institute, in the broad area of electrochemical science.

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SMTG Early Career Award

Recognising exceptional early career scientists working in the broadly defined area of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.

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Ruth Lynden-Bell PhD Prize

Recognising experimental or theoretical work in the general area statistical mechanics and thermodynamics by recent PhD students.

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Thermo-Hilger Award

Recognising early career scientists who are judged to have made a major contribution to analytical atomic spectroscopy.

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Thomas Graham Lecture

Recognising outstanding mid-career researchers in the field of colloid, interface and surface science.

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Sir Eric Rideal Lecture

Recognising scientists for their significant and sustained contribution to the field of the colloid, interface and surface science community.

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Water For Life Award

Recognising individuals who have made an outstanding lifelong contribution in water-related chemical sciences for public health and/or sustainability.

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Alan Tetlow Memorial Award

Supporting early career researchers to develop their professional careers in water-related chemical science.

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Water Science Award

Recognising early career researchers engaged in projects on water cycle management and the impact on the environment.

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Wheeler Bequest Award

Recognising the outstanding contributions of an individual to the history of chemistry.

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Don McKenzie Paul Thesis Prize

Recognising a thesis describes notable development of neutron instrumentation or techniques or uses neutrons to address a scientific challenge.

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Energy Sector PhD Thesis Award

Recognising the best PhD thesis in the field of chemistry for the energy sector.

Closes - 01 July 2025

Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal

Recognising excellence in early career scientists in the application of chemical sciences to the study of any aspect of biotechnology.

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