Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Fleur Ferguson
University of California San Diego
Winner 2026: For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.
2026 RSC Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Frank Leibfarth
University of North Carolina, USA
Winner 2025: For significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career.
2025 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship
Functional Framework Materials: Design and Characterisati...
For seminal contributions to in situ and operando characterisation of porous materials and catalysts for the binding, capture and separation of fue...
2024 Dalton Horizon Prizes
Gas-phase Heterogeneous Catalysis for Solar Fuels Research
For defining a chemical approach to nanomaterials leading to efficient gas-phase heterogeneous carbon dioxide photocatalysis.
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prizes
George Burton
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
For the development of outstanding glass-blowing expertise supporting research and teaching nationally and internationally, over nearly four decades.
2024 Technical Excellence Prizes
George Jackson
Winner 2025: for his outstanding work in the field of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
2025 Lennard-Jones Lectureship
Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
For outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and championing a positive inclusive cu...
2025 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Gideon Davies and Paul Walton
For the team's ground-breaking synergistic studies of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase enzymes and insights into the copper histidine brace activ...
2020 Rita and John Cornforth Award
Gon莽alo Bernardes
University of Cambridge
For the design, development and application of targeted therapeutics including small molecule-based RNA degradation and conditional activation of c...
2024 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Graeme Day
University of Southampton, UK
For pioneering the development of computational methods for guiding the discovery of functional molecular crystals.
2023 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Great Science Share for Schools
For inspiring 5-14 years olds in practical science, through a collaborative campaign focused on pupils asking,investigating and sharing their scien...
2024 Team Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Green Circular Solvent Team
For a partnership that has demonstrated a diverse range of applications of the bio-derived, non-toxic solvent Cyrene™ towards safe and sustainable...
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize
Greenhead College Chemistry Department
For enhancing and enriching the chemistry learning of a huge and diverse group of students by offering a high quality and broad chemistry education...
2022 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
Gr茅goire Bastide, Anna Remund, Dina Oosthuizen, Nina Derr...
Paper: Handheld device quantifies breath acetone for real-life metabolic health monitoring
2023 Sensors & Diagnostics Outstanding Early Career Research Award
Guanjie He
University College London, UK
For developing critical components of sustainable and safe energy storage and conversion technologies.
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Guanjie He
University College London, UK
Winner 2025: for making significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry in their early career.
2025 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship
Hanna Breunig and Dongliang Chao
Winners 2023: for outstanding emerging investigators working in an energy research topic within the scope of the journal Energy and Environmental S...
2023 EES Lectureship
Haritz Sardon
University of the Basque Country, Spain
Winner 2024: For making significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career.
2024 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship
Harm Reduction
For the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on policing and harm reduction.
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
Harriet Bean
BASF, USA
For major contributions towards the future sustainability of production plants through improvements to process safety, asset effectiveness, through...
2024 RSC Apprentice Prizes
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