Reshaping recognition: evolving how we celebrate excellence
A multi-year journey to transform our prizes
Summary of contents
For more than 150 years, our prizes have celebrated those who have made profound contributions to the chemical sciences.
Following a major review, and through a comprehensive and community-led transformation programme between 2020 and 2025, we have evolved our recognition offering to better reflect today’s scientific landscape.
This report describes our journey, from a major review to a reimagined prize portfolio, and celebrates the outcomes that we have seen along the way.
The progress made in recent years is the result of collaborating and gathering feedback from our community and building on the important work presented in our Re-thinking recognition report. Read the document now to learn more about our approach and see the full list of recommendations that have inspired our changes.