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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Arthur Ragauskas
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
For pioneering several widely used tools and approaches in biorefining, including the mechanistic understanding of lignin conversion chemistry.
2022 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Chunying Chen
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China
For pioneering contributions in exploration of the nano–bio interface, providing fundamental insights into the fate of nanomaterials in biota and t...
2021 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment 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 Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
For deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium batteries and hybrid photovolta...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Professor Stuart Taylor
Cardiff University, UK
For pioneering work on the discovery of catalysts that have been commercialised for environmental protection, including carbon monoxide oxidation c...
2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Yearly celebrations
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23 November 2021
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