Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations
Celebrating our 2026 Prize winners
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 our prize winners to find profiles, see photo galleries, get insights into their work, and read a question and answer session with the prize winner.
Research & Innovation Prize winners
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Horizon Prize winners
Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
Inclusion and Diversity Prize winner
Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.
Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.
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Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Paul Jones
Bitrez Ltd.
For the creation of UK businesses that are globally recognised for innovating speciality polymers employing green chemistry principles.
2021 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year
Paul Walton
University of York, UK
For exemplary and wide-ranging contributions over two decades promoting the use of evidence-based thinking in gender equality in the chemical scien...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Paul Wender
Stanford University, USA
For extraordinary contributions encompassing groundbreaking advancements in synthesis, photochemistry, organometallic chemistry, medicinal chemistr...
2024 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Pericyclases
For the discovery of a new class of enzymes, the pericyclases, that catalyse reactions in biosynthesis of complex natural products, and for identif...
2021 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prizes
PERIODically: the podcast that covers all things periods...
For sparking discussion around the challenges menstrual periods create for people working in higher education, acting as advocates to help remove s...
2024 Horizon Prizes for Education
Pilgrim School Science Department
For planning and facilitating a move from theoretical to hands-on practical science, for a broad age range of students with special educational med...
2021 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
Pioneers in Hybrid Glass Research
For the discovery and development of hybrid glasses, a new family of glasses separate to known inorganic, organic and metallic families.
2025 Dalton Horizon Prizes
PISCO Team
For the development of new photochromic dyes for use in semi-transparent solar cells with light transmittance that adapts to illumination conditions.
2025 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prizes
Pizza Model Approach for Raising the Employability of Che...
For the collaborative design and implementation of regional, national and international activities which embed transferable skills and employabilit...
2024 Horizon Prizes for Education
Plymouth Science CIC
For creating innovative teaching resources that enable children to work scientifically and demonstrate their skills and creativity through a hands-...
2023 Team Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Polarisation Photocatalysis
For the development of polarisation photocatalysis using spontaneous electric fields in polar materials to mitigate charge carrier recombination, p...
2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prizes
Professor Alan Goldman
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
For deep and scholarly insight into the mechanisms of organometallic reactions and the design of organometallic catalysts.
2020 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Alan Mackie
University of Leeds, UK
For the impact his research and scientific contributions have had in the field of food chemistry.
2022 Food Group Open Medal
Professor Alastair Lewis
University of York and National Centre for Atmospheric Science
For the promotion and application of the chemical sciences to support development of evidence-based policy and regulation in the fields of air poll...
2022 Lord Lewis Prize
Professor Ali Tavassoli
University of Southampton
For the high-throughput intracellular production and screening of cyclic peptide libraries, and their application in the identification of inhibito...
2025 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Alison Hulme
University of Edinburgh, UK
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry and the organic chemistry community through our member communities and governance groups.
2022 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Amos Fatokun
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
For inspirational and long-term leadership, providing culturally competent mentoring to Black and minoritised ethnic students and staff internation...
2026 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Professor Andrew Baldwin
University of Oxford, UK
For the development and application of chemical methods for understanding the biology of membraneless organelles.
2020 Chemistry Biology Interface early career prize: Norman Heatley Award
Professor Andrew Beale
University College London, UK
For the development of novel methodologies using bright light sources to identify active species in catalysis and energy storage.
2022 Materials Chemistry mid-career prize: Peter Day Prize
Professor Andrew Goodwin
University of Oxford, UK
For studies of structural complexity in framework materials.
2021 Materials Chemistry mid-career prize: Peter Day Prize
Yearly celebrations
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