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.
Jenny Nelson
Imperial College London, UK
For contributions to the understanding and development of novel electronic materials for solar energy conversion.
2024 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Laura Gagliardi
University of Chicago, USA
For contributions to the development of multireference quantum chemical approaches to describe catalysis and excited state phenomena.
2021 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Michael Wasielewski
Northwestern University, USA
For contributions toward understanding electron spin dynamics in molecular systems for applications in quantum information science.
2022 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Professor Enrique Iglesia
University of California Berkeley, USA
For outstanding contributions to the mechanistic understanding of catalysis, leading scientific innovation for environmental protection and the pro...
2023 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
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 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...
2020 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
