Our Honorary Fellows
Members of Council, Division Presidents, Chairs of Committees, Section Chairs and other Interest Groups are invited annually to make nominations for new Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Any member may submit a nomination at any time throughout the year to be considered by the Nominations Committee for recommendation to Council.
For more information, contact our governance team
We currently have 116 Honorary Fellows.
2018
Professor Juliet A Gerrard HonFRSC FRSNZ
Dr Fiona H Marshall HonFRSC
Professor Roger A Sheldon HonFRSC FRS
2017
Professor Jacques Dubochet HonFRSC
Professor Richard Henderson HonFRSC FRS
Professor Thisbe Lindhorst HonFRSC
Professor Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian HonFRSC
Professor W Graham Richards CBE HonFRSC
The Rt Hon. Lord David Willetts HonFRSC
2016
Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage HonFRSC
Professor Dr Bernard L Feringa CChem HonFRSC
Professor Dr Xinhe Bao HonFRSC
Professor Christina Moberg HonFRSC
Professor Dame Janet Thornton DBE HonFRSC FRS
2015
Professor Andrew D Hamilton HonFRSC FRS
Dr Tomas R Lindahl HonFRSC FRS
Professor Dame Carol V Robinson DBE HonFRSC FRS
Professor Lesley J Yellowlees CBE HonFRSC FRSE
2014
Professor Jacqueline K Barton HonFRSC
Professor Dr Stefan W Hell HonFRSC
Professor William E Moerner HonFRSC
Professor Bengt J F Norden HonFRSC
Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE HonFRSC FRS
Professor Dame Julia Slingo DBE HonFRSC
Professor Gabor Somorjai HonFRSC
2013
Professor Michael Grätzel HonFRSC
Professor Dame Anne Glover DBE HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Professor Dame Julia S Higgins DBE HonFRSC FRS
Professor Andrew B Holmes HonFRSC FRS
Professor Martin Karplus HonFRSC
Professor Michael Levitt HonFRSC FRS
Professor Arieh Warshel HonFRSC
Mr Keith Wiggins HonFRSC
2012
Professor Brian Kobilka HonFRSC
Professor Robert J Lefkowitz HonFRSC
Sir Gregory P Winter CBE HonFRSC FRS
2011
Dr Yusuf Khwaja Hamied HonFRSC
Professor Dan Shechtman HonFRSC
Sir J Fraser Stoddart CChem HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS
Dr Joan Selverstone Valentine HonFRSC
2010
Professor Andre Geim HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys HonFRSC FRS
Professor Ei-ichi Negishi HonFRSC
Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir Paul Nurse HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Professor Akira Suzuki HonFRSC
2009
Professor Christian André Amatore HonFRSC
Professor Allen Joseph Bard HonFRSC
Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan HonFRSC FRS
Professor Thomas Arthur Steitz HonFRSC
Professor Ada E Yonath HonFRSC
2008
Professor Martin Chalfie HonFRSC
2007
Professor Gerhard Ertl HonFRSC HonFRSE
Professor Dieter Fenske HonFRSC
2006
Professor Roger D Kornberg HonFRSC FRS
Professor Goverdhan Mehta CChem HonFRSC FRS
Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama HonFRSC
Professor Herbert Roesky HonFRSC
Lord Sainsbury of Turville HonFRSC FRS
2005
Mr Heston Blumenthal OBE HonFRSC
Professor Robert H Grubbs HonFRSC
Professor Satoshi Omura HonFRSC
Professor Richard Royce Schrock HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor George M Whitesides HonFRSC
2004
Professor Aaron J Ciechanover HonFRSC
Professor Harry Barkus Gray HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor Avram Hershko HonFRSC
Professor Roderick MacKinnon HonFRSC
2003
Professor Sir Richard Friend HonFRSC FRS
2002
Professor Henri B Kagan HonFRSC
Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Professor Kurt Wuthrich HonFRSC HonFRSE ForMemRS
2001
Lord Browne of Madingley HonFRSC FRS
Professor Richard N Zare HonFRSC ForMemRS
2000
Professor Jack David Dunitz HonFRSC FRS
Professor Ryoji Noyori HonFRSC ForMemRS
1998
Professor Sir John Ivan George Cadogan CBE CChem HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Sir Richard Brook Sykes HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir John Walker HonFRSC FRS
1997
Professor Karl B Sharpless HonFRSC
1996
Professor Walter Kaminsky HonFRSC
1995
Professor Roald Hoffmann HonFRSC ForMemRS
1994
1993
Miss Helen P Sharman CMG OBE CChem HonFRSC
1990
Dr Wolfgang Fritsche CChem HonFRSC
Professor Rudolf A Marcus HonFRSC
Professor Federico Mayor Zaragoza HonFRSC
Professor Oleg M Nefedov HonFRSC
Professor John C Polanyi HonFRSC FRS