Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
2025 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry: awarded for insights into the photophysics of first row transition metal complex...
Professor Cameron Alexander
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for interdisciplinary research at the boundaries of chemistry, bio-responsive materials, and medicine.
Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize: awarded for innovative contributions to the field of electrochemical sensors for biomedical applications.
Dr Fanran Meng
University of Sheffield, UK
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Prize: awarded for developing net-zero pathways for the chemical industry through emission...
Professor Duncan Graham
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling...
Professor Igor Larrosa
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Robert Robinson Prize: awarded for contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.
Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 RSC Apprentice Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and...
Professor Dave Adams
University of Glasgow, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the chemical control of reactivity and functionality in soft materials.
Dr Lauren Hatcher
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovative developments in real-time photocrystallography, including the study...
Dr Pietro Sormanni
University of Cambridge, UK
2025 Norman Heatley Award: awarded for pioneering the development of computational methods for antibody design and optimisation, enabling transform...
Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of...
Professor Perdita Barran
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the application of ion mobility mass spectrometry to complex biological systems, and breakthroughs in...
Professor John Plane
University of Leeds, UK
2025 Faraday Lectureship Prize: awarded for the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of...
Professor Rebecca Melen
Cardiff University, UK
2025 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize: awarded for insights into the reactivity of frustrated Lewis pairs by single- and two-electron pathways.
Dr Nathan Davison
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize: awarded for significant advances in organolithium and organosodium chemistry, including the first solvent-fr...
Professor Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for precision polymer chemistry, self-assembly and materials synthesis that demonstrates both fundamental...
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
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 Stephen Goldup
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for delineating stereochemical theory of the mechanical bond, the discovery of new mecha...
Professor Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
2025 Bourke-Liversidge Prize: awarded for contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional or...