Prizes

Our prestigious prizes and awards celebrate exceptional achievements and groundbreaking contributions across the chemical sciences. From recognising emerging talent to honoring lifetime accomplishments, our awards highlight excellence in research, education, industry, and outreach. Find our more about how we champion those who are shaping the future of chemistry.

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Nominations for the education prizes are now closed. Winners will be announced in November 2025.

Our prizes

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Horizon prizes

Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.

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Research and innovation prizes

Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.

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Education prizes

Celebrating inspirational, innovative, and dedicated people working at all levels of education.

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Volunteer Recognition prizes

Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.

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Journal lectureships

Recognition that validates the achievements of individuals and teams in the chemical sciences.

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Interest group prizes

Many of our interest groups administer their own prizes that recognise significant contributions to their fields and areas of interest.

Inclusion and diversity prize

Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.

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Exceptional research contributions

Recognising some of the outstanding work published across our journals, as well as the authors behind those articles.

Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence Award

Recognition program for university students in North America who have shown significant achievement in the chemical sciences.

Our winners

We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences. Explore our prize winners, and discover and share their stories

Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels.

Explore prize winners

RSC Recognition Fund

The RSC Recognition Fund is a special trust for the purposes of advancing the science of chemistry and its application for the public benefit by recognising excellence through the provision of awards, prizes and other means. It was registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales in 2021 as a linked charity of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

A donation to the RSC Recognition Fund offers new donors the option to make a gift directly to our recognition activities to celebrate, incentivise and support excellence in chemistry and its applications.

As our discipline and the world around us evolve, we will continue to recognise the many types of excellence that are important for chemistry to benefit society today and tomorrow.

More about the fund

Created by combining thirty historical awards funds as part of the modernisation of RSC Recognition Programmes, the fund is vital to our programmes stemming back across more than 150 years of RSC recognition and celebration of excellence in the chemical sciences.

The purposes of the RSC Recognition Fund continue the spirit of historical gifts made to the RSC and for which the RSC is deeply grateful:

Adrien Albert Legacy (1991)
Centenary Fund (1947)
Christopher Ingold Lecture Fund (1973)
Corday Morgan Medal & Prize Fund (1947)
Corday Morgan Memorial Fund (1951)
Edward Frank Harrison Memorial Trust (1922)
Edward Horton Bequest (1978)
Faraday Medal & Lectureship Fund (1971)
Harry Shalgosky Bequest (2009)
Henderson Memorial Fund (1946)
Industrial Division Endowment Lecture Fund (1979)
John Jeyes Lecture Fund (1975)
Joseph Chatt Lectureship (1995)
Liversidge Lecture Fund (1927)
Ludwig Mond Lectureship (1981)
Marlow Medal & Award Fund (1974)
Patrick Meares Legacy (2016)
Pedler Lectureship Fund (1927)
R A Robinson Memorial Lectureship (1980)
Rhône-Poulenc Lectureship (1984)
Robert John Flintoff Medal & Prize Fund (1950)
Robert Robinson Lectureship (1961)
S F Boys–A Rahman Lectureship Fund (1988)
Simonsen Lecture Fund (1957)
Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship (1983)
Sir Edward Frankland Prize & Lectureship Fund (1981)
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lectureship (1999)
Spiers Memorial Trust Fund (1972)
Tilden Lecture Fund (1937)
W J Hickinbottom Bequest (1979)

Find out about donating

Thank you for considering a gift to the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Write to us at: Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BA

Tel:+44 20 7440 3358

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