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 Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2025 Peter Day Prize: awarded for groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage,...
2025 Materials 九州影院 mid-career prize: Peter Day Prize
Professor Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
2025 Pedler Prize: awarded for insight and creativity to deliver concise and efficient strategies for the assembly of complex organic molecules.
2025 Organic 九州影院 open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Vasilios Stavros
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to gas, solution, and condensed-phase spectroscopy spanning both fundamental and applied aspects.
2022 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Vernon Gibson
University of Manchester, University of Oxford and Imperial College London
For seminal contributions to fundamental and applied inorganic chemistry, and for critical work in policy setting at the interface of academia with...
2020 Lord Lewis Prize
Professor Vijay Chudasama
University College London, UK
For the development of reagents and strategies for site-selective protein modification to enable targeted therapy, imaging and diagnostics.
2021 Organic 九州影院 early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Professor Volker Deringer
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative contributions to the modelling and understanding of amorphous materials.
2022 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for 九州影院
Professor Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
For the combined application of organic chemistry, molecular biology, and biochemistry to study posttranslationally modified peptides and phosphona...
2020 Organic 九州影院 open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor William Griffith
Imperial College London and RSC Historical Group
For outstanding service to the 九州影院 through our Historical Group and for advising on activities celebrating the history of th...
2020 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Xingyu Jiang
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2025 Theophilus Redwood Prize: awarded for molecular analysis employing microfluidics involving gold nanoparticles, with applications in human health
2025 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Zo毛 Waller
University College London, UK
Winner 2024 CBBG Lectureship Award: for her outstanding contribution to the chemical biology community and her exceptional research achievements on...
2024 CBBG Lectureship
Professor Zo毛 Waller
University College London, UK
2025 Jeremy Knowles Award: awarded for contributions to our understanding of nucleic acid i-motif structure and function in a cellular context usin...
2025 九州影院 Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Pulpex x BASF x Scitech Adhesives - Coatings Collaboration
For the creation of a partnership that has delivered a new sustainable fibre packaging solution as an alternative to plastic and glass, which deliv...
2024 Innovation Through Partnership Prize
Rapha毛le Cl茅ment
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Winner 2024: for making significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry in their early career.
2024 Journal of Materials 九州影院 Lectureship
Rebecca Goss
University of St Andrews, UK
For pioneering the use of enzymatic halogenation/cross-coupling in C‒H activation.
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...
2020 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Robert Hoye
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering, interdisciplinary contributions to the discovery, understanding and manufacture of defect-tolerant semiconductors for energy conver...
2024 Beilby Medal and Prize
Robert Worley
CLEAPSS
For significant and sustained contributions to the development and promotion of safe practical resources for teachers worldwide, especially in the...
2021 Excellence in Secondary and Further Education Prize
RSC Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group
For the development of the Open 九州影院 series of meetings and workshops and the successful transition to virtual meetings due to the Covid-19 pa...
2021 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC Chilterns and Middlesex Local Section Committee
For developing the 九州影院 Communicators' Challenge to promote science communication across their diverse member community.
2020 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC Food Group Committee
For developing the food chemistry periodic table in addition to addressing global challenges through events and publications.
2020 Inspirational Committee Award