Prize winners

Professor Jason Micklefield

The University of Manchester, UK

For innovative research spanning organic chemistry to molecular genetics, leading to the discovery, characterisation, and engineering of many novel...

Professor Javier Pérez-Ramírez

For connecting catalyst design, reaction engineering, and sustainability metrics to develop new catalytic technologies that enable circular carbon...

Professor Jeffrey Long

University of California Berkeley, USA

For pioneering work in the synthesis and characterization of inorganic molecules and materials exhibiting new physical phenomena.

Professor Jennifer Leigh

University of Kent, UK

For leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting systemic discrimination, and amplifyin...

Professor Jianliang Xiao

University of Liverpool, UK

For outstanding contributions to catalysis, both in fundamental studies and commercial application.

Professor Jiashu Sun

National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China

For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.

Professor Johannes Awudza

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry in Ghana and through the Pan-African Chemistry Network.

Professor John Dean

Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region

For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through the development and support for the analytical science community and the School's...

Professor John Dean

Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region

For dedication to the planning, coordination and ongoing development of the Schools Analyst Competition.

Professor John Hepworth

University of Central Lancashire and RSC Lancaster and District Local Section

For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our Local Sections, governance committees and Board of Trustees.

Professor John Plane

University of Leeds, UK

For the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of the impact of cosmic dust in planetary a...

Professor John Spencer

University of Sussex, UK

For pioneering organic chemistry used to accelerate drug discovery and underpin the development of clinical candidates.

Professor Jonathan Nitschke

University of Cambridge, UK

For the development of polyhedral metal−organic capsules as useful tools for chemical separations.

Professor Jonathan Reid

University of Bristol, UK

For pioneering studies of the chemical and physical properties of micron-scale aerosol particles, and their impact in atmospheric, health, analytic...

Professor Jonathan Sessler

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

For pioneering work on f-element complexes of expanded porphyrins.

Professor Joseph Francisco

University of Pennsylvania, USA

For pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.

Professor Judith Driscoll

University of Cambridge

For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.

Professor Julie Macpherson

University of Warwick, UK

For pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material chara...

Professor K. Barry Sharpless

Scripps Research

For the development of the concept of ‘click’ chemistry, the invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and the impact this continues...

Professor K. Clive Thompson

ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK

For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through the Water Science Forum and the Food Group.