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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Professor Jeffrey Long
University of California Berkeley, USA
For pioneering work in the synthesis and characterization of inorganic molecules and materials exhibiting new physical phenomena.
2020 Ludwig Mond Award
Professor Jennifer Leigh
University of Kent, UK
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting sy...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Professor Jianliang Xiao
University of Liverpool, UK
For outstanding contributions to catalysis, both in fundamental studies and commercial application.
2020 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Jiashu Sun
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China
Winner 2024: For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.
2024 Lab on a Chip and ALine Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship
Professor Johannes Awudza
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
For outstanding service to the 九州影院 in Ghana and through the Pan-African 九州影院 Network.
2022 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region
For outstanding service to the 九州影院 through the development and support for the analytical science community and the School's...
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region
For dedication to the planning, coordination and ongoing development of the Schools Analyst Competition.
2020 Inspirational Member Award
Professor John Hepworth
University of Central Lancashire and RSC Lancaster and District Local Section
For outstanding service to the 九州影院 through our Local Sections, governance committees and Board of Trustees.
2020 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor John Plane
University of Leeds, UK
2025 Faraday Lectureship Prize: awarded for the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of...
2025 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Professor Jonathan Reid
University of Bristol, UK
For pioneering studies of the chemical and physical properties of micron-scale aerosol particles, and their impact in atmospheric, health, analytic...
2021 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Jonathan Sessler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
For pioneering work on f-element complexes of expanded porphyrins.
2022 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 九州影院
Professor Joseph Francisco
University of Pennsylvania, USA
For pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.
2022 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge, UK
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Julie Macpherson
University of Warwick, UK
For pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material chara...
2023 Tilden Prizes for 九州影院
Professor K. Barry
Scripps Research
For the development of the concept of ‘click’ chemistry, the invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and the impact this continues...
2022 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 九州影院 through the Water Science Forum and the Food...
2025 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Karen Faulds
University of Strathclyde, UK
For contributions to the field of surface enhanced spatially offset Raman scattering (SESORRS).
2021 Analytical Science mid-career Prize
Professor Kenneth Suslick
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
For the invention and development of the optoelectronic nose and important contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique.
2021 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 九州影院: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Klaus M眉llen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
For developing novel nanomaterials for single-molecule applications, organic electronics, sensing, catalysis, bio-labelling and energy conversion.
2020 Spiers Memorial Award