Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and f...
Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of...
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and...
Nicholas Kotov
University of Michigan, USA
For innovative studies and applications of complex self-assembling nanosystems, and for excellence in communication.
Luisa De Cola
University of Strasbourg, France
For innovative studies on how photophysically active materials and nanostructures may be fabricated for deployment within active biological systems...
Professor James Tour
Rice University, USA
For innovations in materials chemistry, with applications in medicine and nanotechnology.
Xiaogang Liu
National University of Singapore, Singapore
For outstanding contributions to the understanding and optical manipulation of photon conversion in nanocrystals and their applications in X-ray an...
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Northwestern University, USA
For pioneering contributions to the synthesis and development of novel semiconducting halide perovskites for application in solar energy conversion...
Professor Mark Grinstaff
Boston University, USA
For pioneering advances and translational research using innovative polymer platforms for new drug delivery systems and medical applications, and f...
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 Jean-Luc Brédas
University of Arizona, USA
For seminal contributions to our fundamental understanding of the electronic properties of organic materials for electronics and photonics, and for...
Professor Doug Stephan
University of Toronto, USA
For the discovery of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs” and their wide applicability in bond-forming and catalysis, and for excellence in communication.
Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
For the development and photophysical understanding of precision macromolecular photochemistry, and for excellence in communication.
Catherine Murphy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
For pioneering work on the growth, size and shape control, biological applications and environmental implications of gold nanocrystals, and for exc...
Bin Liu
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
For the innovative design and synthesis of organic molecules and nanomaterials to advance biomedical research and applications, and for excellence...
Teri Odom
Northwestern University, USA
For seminal work on multi-scale materials that enable new ways to achieve ultrafast, coherent, and directional light emission at the nanoscale.
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...
Professor Michelle Chang
University of California Berkeley, USA
For seminal contributions in biosynthesis and biocatalysis to advance energy and environmental science and biomedical research, and for excellence...