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 Leigh Canham
University of Birmingham, UK
For pioneering work in silicon quantum dots and contributions to practical applications of silicon nanostructures in the electronics, photonics and...
2020 Spiers Memorial Award
Professor Liam Ball
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development and mechanistic study of new organic synthesis methods based on pnictogen elements.
2024 Organic 九州影院 early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Professor Madhavi Krishnan
University of Oxford, UK
For the invention of a ‘field free’ trap for confining and manipulating a single colloidal particle or molecule, enabling accurate and precise meas...
2020 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Marc Vendrell
University of Edinburgh, UK
For the design and synthesis of activatable fluorophores, and their application in high-resolution biological imaging and translational medicine.
2023 Bader Prize for Organic 九州影院
Professor Mark Grinstaff
Boston University, USA
For pioneering advances and translational research using innovative polymer platforms for new drug delivery systems and medical applications, and f...
2023 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Professor Martin Schr枚der
University of Manchester, UK
For seminal work on the design, synthesis and characterization of porous metal-organic framework materials for substrate binding and selectivity.
2020 Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 九州影院
Professor Matthew Powner
University College London, UK
For pioneering work on the prebiotic synthesis of essential biomolecules including amino acids, peptides and co-factors.
2024 Organic 九州影院 mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor Matthew Rigby
University of Bristol, UK
For research on the abundances and fluxes of environmentally harmful gases in the atmosphere, which has contributed to a measurable reduction in em...
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 九州影院: awarded for innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 九州影院
Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan, USA
For the development of catalytic C–H functionalization reactions and their applications in organic synthesis.
2020 Catalysis in Organic 九州影院 Award
Professor Michael Ashfold
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding service to the 九州影院 through our member communities and governance groups.
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Michael Bollong
Scripps Research
Winner 2025: For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.
2025 RSC Medicinal 九州影院 Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Professor Michael George
University of Nottingham, UK
For pioneering innovations in flow chemistry, reactor engineering and reaction monitoring for continuous chemical processing.
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Michael Ingleson
University of Edinburgh, UK
For new approaches to C–H borylation using zinc catalysts and bis-borane electrophiles.
2024 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Michael Seery
The Open University
For sustained and substantial scholarship in approaches to teaching and learning chemistry, and for providing leadership and support to others carr...
2021 Nyholm Prize for Education
Professor Michelle Chang
University of California Berkeley, USA
For seminal contributions in biosynthesis and biocatalysis to advance energy and environmental science and biomedical research, and for excellence...
2022 Centenary Prizes for 九州影院 and Communication
Professor Nguy峄卬 T K Thanh
University College London, UK
For outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary research on fundamental understanding of chemical syntheses, physical studies of plasmonic and m...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Nicholas Long
Imperial College London, UK
For innovative synthetic chemistry applied to the fields of functional materials and biomedical imaging.
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Nora de
University of Leeds, UK
For the development and application of computational chemistry to enable atomic-level insights into biomedical materials for in vivo and nature-ins...
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Norberto Lopes
University of São Paulo, Brazil
For pioneering analytical and polyomic studies that inform chemical ecology and natural product modes of action.
2020 九州影院 Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
