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.
Rebecca Goss
University of St Andrews, UK
For pioneering the use of enzymatic halogenation/cross-coupling in C‒H activation.
2022 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Richard Brown
National Physical Laboratory, UK
For excellence in theoretical and practical aspects of chemical measurement leading to the recent redefinition of the mole, and communication of th...
2020 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Robert Hoye
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering, interdisciplinary contributions to the discovery, understanding and manufacture of defect-tolerant semiconductors for energy conver...
2024 Beilby Medal and Prize
Robert Worley
CLEAPSS
For significant and sustained contributions to the development and promotion of safe practical resources for teachers worldwide, especially in the...
2021 Excellence in Secondary and Further Education Prize
RSC Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group
For the development of the Open Chemistry series of meetings and workshops and the successful transition to virtual meetings due to the Covid-19 pa...
2021 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC Chilterns and Middlesex Local Section Committee
For developing the Chemistry Communicators' Challenge to promote science communication across their diverse member community.
2020 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC Food Group Committee
For developing the food chemistry periodic table in addition to addressing global challenges through events and publications.
2020 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC Formulation Science and Technology Group
For the successful transition of their conference programme to run online on during the Covid-19 pandemic.
2021 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship earlier winners
RSC Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship winners prior to 2025
2012 RSC Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship
RSC Molecular Spectroscopy Group
For the successful transition of their programme to run online during the Covid-19 pandemic.
2022 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC Porous Materials Group
For the creation and development of a cohesive porous materials community.
2021 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC South Africa North Local Section
For proactively diversifying the committee to represent their membership community.
2024 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC South India Local Section
For the creation and development of a diverse programme for their community in South India.
2022 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC USA East Coast Local Section
For the diversification of their activities to engage a wider audience of chemists and non-chemists.
2024 Inspirational Committee Award
Saurabh Chitnis and Xiongyi Huang
Joint winners 2025: For substantial contributions to the chemical sciences in the early stages of their careers
2025 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Serena Cussen
University College Dublin
For interdisciplinary and original contributions to the development of new functional materials for energy storage and in-depth study of their loca...
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Serena Parker-Sharp
Spring Grove Junior, Infant and Nursery School
For championing inclusion and diversity within the primary science curriculum to allow children of all backgrounds to see themselves as scientists.
2022 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Sign Language Incorporation in Chemistry Education (SLICE...
For pioneering and disseminating an innovative sign language lexicon to facilitate the learning of organic chemistry by d/Deaf and hard of hearing...
2022 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Sihai Yang
University of Manchester, UK
For pioneering applications of X-ray and neutron scattering techniques to porous materials science and catalysis.
2020 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Sina Khazaee Nejad, Haozheng Ma, Abdulrahman Al-Shami, Al...
Paper: Sustainable agriculture with LEAFS: a low-cost electrochemical analyzer of foliage stress
2025 Sensors & Diagnostics Outstanding Early Career Research Award
Yearly celebrations
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13 June 2023
22 November 2022
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23 November 2021
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