Prize winners

We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.

2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations

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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.

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Research & Innovation Prize winners

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

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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.

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Volunteer Recognition Prize winners

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

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Professor Eli Zysman-Colman

University of St Andrews, UK

For the pioneering development of mechanophotocatalysts, and the use of organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence compounds, to drive sustai...

2026 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry

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 Eric Anslyn

University of Texas at Austin, USA

For exploiting supramolecular interactions and dynamic covalent bonding to generate assays of practical utility, and for communicating the exciteme...

2020 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication

Professor Euan Brechin

University of Edinburgh, UK

For outstanding contributions to synthetic coordination chemistry and molecular magnetism.

2024 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Frank Vanhaecke

Ghent University, Belgium

For the development of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) based methodologies for elemental, isotopic and single-event analysis.

2023 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize

Professor Franziska Schoenebeck

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

For highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reactions, combining cutting-edge synthetic organic chemistry with state-of-the-art comp...

2025 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences

Professor Geoffrey Maitland

Imperial College London, UK

For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our publishing activities and governance groups.

2021 Award for Exceptional Service

Professor Gita Sedghi

University of Liverpool, UK

For outstanding contributions to excellence in higher education teaching and for having transformative impact on the student experience.

2023 Excellence in Higher Education Prize

Professor Graham Newton

University of Nottingham, UK

For the development of hybrid molecular metal-oxide redox materials and their applications in energy storage.

2026 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize

Professor Harry Anderson

University of Oxford, UK

For work on the synthesis and investigation of pi-conjugated macrocycles and new carbon allotropes.

2024 Organic Chemistry open prize: Pedler Prize

Professor Helen Cooper

University of Birmingham, UK

For the development of native ambient mass spectrometry as an analytical technique to enable direct analysis and imaging of intact proteins and pro...

2022 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize

Professor Helen Hailes

University College London, UK

For the design of innovative biocatalytic and chemoenzymatic strategies for molecular assembly, and the enzymatic upcycling of waste biomass and br...

2026 Interdisciplinary Prizes

Professor Ifan Stephens

Imperial College London, UK

For pioneering contributions to non-aqueous electrochemistry, including the discovery of efficient systems for nitrogen reduction, and new characte...

2026 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry

Professor Igor Larrosa

The University of Manchester, UK

For contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.

2025 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize

Professor J. Paul

University of Edinburgh, UK

For transformative discoveries of new materials from high pressure synthesis and of novel electronic phenomena in solids.

2022 Materials Chemistry open prize: John B Goodenough Prize

Professor James McCusker

Michigan State University, USA

For the combined application of synthesis and ultrafast spectroscopy to advance our understanding of the excited-state dynamics of transition metal...

2020 Chemical Dynamics Award