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 Karen Faulds
University of Strathclyde, UK
For contributions to the field of surface enhanced spatially offset Raman scattering (SESORRS).
2021 Analytical 新月直播app下载 mid-career Prize
Professor Kenneth Suslick
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
For the invention and development of the optoelectronic nose and important contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique.
2021 Analytical 新月直播app下载 open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
For innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of both molecular simulations and artificial intelligence techni...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Klaus M眉llen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
For developing novel nanomaterials for single-molecule applications, organic electronics, sensing, catalysis, bio-labelling and energy conversion.
2020 Spiers Memorial Award
Professor Leigh Canham
University of Birmingham, UK
For pioneering work in silicon quantum dots and contributions to practical applications of silicon nanostructures in the electronics, photonics and...
2020 Spiers Memorial Award
Professor Liam Ball
University of Nottingham, UK
For the development and mechanistic study of new organic synthesis methods based on pnictogen elements.
2024 Organic Chemistry early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Professor Madhavi Krishnan
University of Oxford, UK
For the invention of a ‘field free’ trap for confining and manipulating a single colloidal particle or molecule, enabling accurate and precise meas...
2020 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Marc Vendrell
University of Edinburgh, UK
For the design and synthesis of activatable fluorophores, and their application in high-resolution biological imaging and translational medicine.
2023 Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry
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...
2023 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Martin Schr枚der
University of Manchester, UK
For seminal work on the design, synthesis and characterization of porous metal-organic framework materials for substrate binding and selectivity.
2020 Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Matthew Powner
University College London, UK
For pioneering work on the prebiotic synthesis of essential biomolecules including amino acids, peptides and co-factors.
2024 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor Matthew Rigby
University of Bristol, UK
For research on the abundances and fluxes of environmentally harmful gases in the atmosphere, which has contributed to a measurable reduction in em...
2024 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of-the-art in lithium-ion systems.
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan, USA
For the development of catalytic C–H functionalization reactions and their applications in organic synthesis.
2020 Catalysis in Organic Chemistry Award
Professor Michael Ashfold
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding service to the 新月直播app下载 through our member communities and governance groups.
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Michael Bollong
Scripps Research
Winner 2025: For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.
2025 RSC Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Professor Michael George
University of Nottingham, UK
For pioneering innovations in flow chemistry, reactor engineering and reaction monitoring for continuous chemical processing.
2022 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Michael Ingleson
University of Edinburgh, UK
For new approaches to C–H borylation using zinc catalysts and bis-borane electrophiles.
2024 Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize
Professor Michael Seery
The Open University
For sustained and substantial scholarship in approaches to teaching and learning chemistry, and for providing leadership and support to others carr...
2021 Nyholm Prize for Education
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...
2022 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
