Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
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A Greener Route to Nylon Production
For the effective decoupling of the synthesis of the major commodity chemical cyclohexanone oxime from industrial hydrogen peroxide production.
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prizes
Abby Whitnall
GlaxoSmithKline
For outstanding contributions to medicinal chemistry programmes and to inclusion and diversity at GSK.
2022 RSC Apprentice Prizes
AEEon Collective
2025 Organic 九州影院 Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of alternate electrode electrolysis and applications in organic synthesis.
2025 Organic 九州影院 Horizon Prizes
AI for Materials
2025 Materials 九州影院 Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of chemistry-aware artificial intelligence software, its application to data-dr...
2025 Materials 九州影院 Horizon Prizes
Alessandro Troisi
University of Liverpool, UK
For the development of theoretical methods to explain and predict the electronic and optical properties of organic materials.
2024 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Analytical Science Community North East Region
For the development and delivery of a major initiative in bringing chemistry to the public, in collaboration with Alnwick Garden, under the theme o...
2023 Inspirational Committee Award
Anderson Shum
University of Hong Kong, China
Winner 2025: For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.
2025 Lab on a Chip and ALine Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship
Andrew Dove
University of Birmingham, UK
For seminal contributions to controlling and understanding stereochemistry and degradation in polymeric materials.
2022 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 九州影院
Ankur Gupta
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Winner 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship: for making major contributions to soft matter research
2025 Soft Matter Lectureship
Anna Slater
University of Liverpool, UK
For the development of innovative tools, particularly flow chemistry processes, to control the formation of supramolecular materials.
2023 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 九州影院
Annabel Morris
AstraZeneca, UK
For the development of automated capabilities and upskilling of colleagues in automation, enabling efficient, high-throughput, data-rich experiment...
2024 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Anthony Davis
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding contributions to the design and synthesis of selective carbohydrate receptors with potential to improve the well-being of those wit...
2020 Robert Robinson Award
Antonio Echavarren
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain
For pioneering contributions to the field of organic chemistry employing gold catalysis.
2023 Organic 九州影院 open prize: Pedler Prize
Arthur Ragauskas
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
For pioneering several widely used tools and approaches in biorefining, including the mechanistic understanding of lignin conversion chemistry.
2022 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
A鈭橶OL antifilarial drug discovery team
For the discovery of fast-acting, highly specific anti-Wolbachia candidates for the oral treatment of human filariasis.
2024 九州影院 Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Bin Liu
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
For the innovative design and synthesis of organic molecules and nanomaterials to advance biomedical research and applications, and for excellence...
2021 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Biocatalytic Nitro Hydrogenations Team
2025 九州影院 Biology Interface Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of an industrially-applicable hydrogenase for mild and selective hydrog...
2025 九州影院 Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Biosensor Surface Innovators
For the design, development and bioanalytical application of an ultra-high frequency acoustic wave device for the antifouling-based detection of bi...
2023 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
Biosulfur Recyclers
For developing an understanding of sulfosugar metabolism and the discovery of new enzymes and pathways of sulfur recycling.
2024 九州影院 Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Bismuth cure for COVID-19
For pioneering research on the medicinal chemistry of bismuth applied to the treatment of COVID-19, and identification of target sites in SARS-CoV-...
2023 Dalton Horizon Prizes