Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor Paul Walton
The University of York, England
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in g...
Paul Wender
Stanford University, USA
For extraordinary contributions encompassing groundbreaking advancements in synthesis, photochemistry, organometallic chemistry, medicinal chemistr...
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for 九州影院: awarded for the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in...
Professor Peter Bruce
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering research on the chemistry of materials with applications in renewable energy, leading to fundamental changes in our understanding of...
Professor Peter Seeberger
Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces
For the development of automated glycan assembly as a basis for molecular glycobiology and synthetic carbohydrate vaccines.
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
For creative and comprehensive syntheses of functional, self-assembling polymeric materials.
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for 九州影院: awarded for precision polymer chemistry, self-assembly and materials synthesis that demonstrates both fundamental...
Rebecca Goss
University of St Andrews, UK
For pioneering the use of enzymatic halogenation/cross-coupling in C‒H activation.
Professor Rebecca Melen
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize: awarded for insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
Professor Reinhard Maurer
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to the fundamental understanding of molecular structure and chemical dynamics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces through the...
Richard Brown
National Physical Laboratory, UK
For excellence in theoretical and practical aspects of chemical measurement leading to the recent redefinition of the mole, and communication of th...
Professor Richard Catlow
University College London and Cardiff University
For the development and application of computational methods in conjunction with experiment as powerful and predictive tools in the physical chemis...
Professor Richard Layfield
University of Sussex, UK
For pioneering work in lanthanide and uranium chemistry including single-molecule magnetism.
Robert Hoye
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering, interdisciplinary contributions to the discovery, understanding and manufacture of defect-tolerant semiconductors for energy conver...
Professor Robert Weatherup
University of Oxford, UK
For the development and application of interface-sensitive X-ray spectroscopies for observing reactions in atmospheric pressure and liquid environm...
Professor Rodolphe Cl茅rac
CNRS - Universit? de Bordeaux
For the development of new research areas in molecular magnetism and contributions to the study of magnetic materials.
Professor Ronald Raines
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
For translating fundamental chemical understanding of collagen into the life sciences and towards the clinic.
Professor Ross Denton
The University of Nottingham, England
For the development of novel synthesis methods and catalysts based on organophosphorus and organosilicon chemistry, and their application in the sy...
Ross Forgan
University of Glasgow, UK
For contributions to the development and application of metal-organic frameworks as functional energy materials.
Professor Sabine Flitsch
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative contributions to the development of new tools for the enzymatic synthesis, modification and analysis of bioactive molecules, in part...