Research and innovation prizes
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Celebrating our 2026 Prize winners
Explore our prize winners to find profiles, see photo galleries, get insights into their work, and read a question and answer session with the prize winner.
Our Research and innovation prizes recognise brilliant chemical scientists carrying out amazing work in academia and industry. They include prizes for those at different career stages in chemistry and for those working in specific fields, as well as interdisciplinary prizes and prizes for those in specific roles.
Prizes in this category
Organic Chemistry early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
The Hickinbottom Prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to any area of organic chemistry made by an early career scientist.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
The Robert Robinson Prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to any area of organic chemistry made by a mid-career scientist.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
Organic Chemistry open prize: Pedler Prize
The Pedler Prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences in the area of organic chemistry.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
Rising Star in Industry Prizes
Awarded for outstanding contributions made by individuals working in the chemical sciences in the early stages of their career in industry.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
RSC Apprentice Prizes
These prizes recognise outstanding contributions made by apprentices working in the chemical sciences.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
The Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship is a reciprocal prize, awarded for advances in chemistry made by scientists based in Germany or the UK.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
The RSC/SCF Lectureship in Chemical Sciences is a reciprocal prize, awarded for advances in chemistry made by scientists based in France or the UK.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Recognising a substantial internationally-leading body of creative work in organic chemistry carried out after the age of sixty.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
Technical Excellence Prizes
These prizes are awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences working as technicians or in technical roles.
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Closes - 13 January 2027
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