Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
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Professor James Tour
Rice University, USA
For innovations in materials chemistry, with applications in medicine and nanotechnology.
2020 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Jan Verlet
Durham University, UK
For pioneering contributions to the spectroscopy and dynamics of anions in the gas-phase and at aqueous interfaces.
2023 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Jason Hallett
Imperial College London, UK
For pioneering work on the development of ionic liquids as commercially relevant solvents in biorefining and the circular economy.
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Professor Jason Micklefield
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative research spanning organic chemistry to molecular genetics, leading to the discovery, characterisation, and engineering of many novel...
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
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.
2020 Ludwig Mond Award
Professor Jennifer Leigh
University of Kent, UK
For leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting systemic discrimination, and amplifyin...
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Professor Jianliang Xiao
University of Liverpool, UK
For outstanding contributions to catalysis, both in fundamental studies and commercial application.
2020 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Jiashu Sun
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China
Winner 2024: For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.
2024 Lab on a Chip and ALine Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship
Professor Johannes Awudza
Kwame Nkrumah University of 新月直播app下载 and Technology
For outstanding service to the 新月直播app下载 in Ghana and through the Pan-African Chemistry Network.
2022 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region
For outstanding service to the 新月直播app下载 through the development and support for the analytical science community and the School's...
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
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.
2020 Inspirational Member Award
Professor John Hepworth
University of Central Lancashire and RSC Lancaster and District Local Section
For outstanding service to the 新月直播app下载 through our Local Sections, governance committees and Board of Trustees.
2020 Award for Exceptional Service
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...
2025 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
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...
2021 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Jonathan Sessler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
For pioneering work on f-element complexes of expanded porphyrins.
2022 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
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.
2022 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge, UK
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Julie Macpherson
University of Warwick, UK
For pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material chara...
2023 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor K. Barry
Scripps Research
For the development of the concept of ‘click’ chemistry, the invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and the impact this continues...
2022 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
For outstanding service to the 新月直播app下载 through the Water 新月直播app下载 Forum and the Food Group.
2025 Award for Exceptional Service
