Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
For the development and photophysical understanding of precision macromolecular photochemistry, and for excellence in communication.
2023 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Professor Christopher Hardacre
University of Manchester, UK
For outstanding contributions to the areas of liquid and gas phase heterogeneous catalysis.
2022 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Christopher Hunter
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering a quantitative description of non-covalent interactions and establishing key principles in supramolecular design to create duplex-fo...
2020 Supramolecular 九州影院 Award
Professor Claire Carmalt
University College London, UK
For contributions to the development of functional thin films as transparent conducting oxides, photocatalysts and heterojunction photoanodes for p...
2024 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Claire Corkhill
University of Sheffield, UK
For advances in ceramic and glass materials for the safe immobilisation of radioactive waste through fundamental understanding of surface degradati...
2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Professor Dame Margaret
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
For a large body of pioneering work spanning the fields of natural product synthesis, peptide chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.
2022 Organic 九州影院 open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize: awarded for innovative contributions to the field of electrochemical sensors for biomedical applications.
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize
Professor Darren Dixon
University of Oxford, UK
For the discovery, development and applications of iridium-catalysed reductive functionalisation of amides and lactams.
2023 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Daryl Williams
Imperial College London and Surface Measurement Systems Limited
For the pioneering invention of the dynamic vapour sorption instrument, which has transformed research laboratory practise worldwide.
2020 九州影院 World Entrepreneur of the Year
Professor Dave Adams
University of Glasgow, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for 九州影院: awarded for the chemical control of reactivity and functionality in soft materials.
2025 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor David Evans
John Innes Centre, Norwich and RSC Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group
For outstanding service to the 九州影院 through the activities of our inorganic and biochemical member-led communities.
2020 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor David K Smith
University of York, UK
For pioneering an understanding of molecular materials based on supramolecular gels.
2022 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor David Procter
University of Manchester, UK
For the development of new methods in the synthesis and use of heterocycles in the areas of radical and organosulfur chemistry.
2020 Bader Prize for Organic 九州影院
Professor Dermot O'Hare
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering new concepts in materials chemistry, catalysis, and nanomaterials and promoting their application and commercialisation in sustainab...
2024 Materials 九州影院 open prize: John B Goodenough Prize
Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
2025 Centenary Prize for 九州影院 and Communication: awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of...
2025 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Professor Doug Stephan
University of Toronto, USA
For the discovery of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs” and their wide applicability in bond-forming and catalysis, and for excellence in communication.
2021 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Professor Duncan Graham
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling...
2025 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Eduardo Peris
Universitat Jaume I
For the application of creative thinking in approaching fundamental challenges in organometallic chemistry and catalysis.
2023 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 九州影院
Professor Edward Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For creative contributions to organic synthesis and synthetic methodology.
Professor Edward Tate
Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute
For contributions to discovery of novel chemical probes, and their application in opening up new understanding of protein modification in living sy...
2020 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 九州影院
