Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations
Celebrating our 2026 Prize winners
Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels. 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.
Research & Innovation Prize winners
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Horizon Prize winners
Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
Inclusion and Diversity Prize winner
Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.
Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.
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Functional Framework Materials: Design and Characterisati...
For seminal contributions to in situ and operando characterisation of porous materials and catalysts for the binding, capture and separation of fue...
2024 Dalton Horizon Prizes
Gas-phase Heterogeneous Catalysis for Solar Fuels Research
For defining a chemical approach to nanomaterials leading to efficient gas-phase heterogeneous carbon dioxide photocatalysis.
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prizes
Gemma-Louise Davies
University of Birmingham, UK
For dedication to supporting the early career colloid chemistry community through the development of the Early Career Colloid Committee and meeting.
2026 Inspirational Member Award
George Burton
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
For the development of outstanding glass-blowing expertise supporting research and teaching nationally and internationally, over nearly four decades.
2024 Technical Excellence Prizes
George Jackson
Winner 2025: for his outstanding work in the field of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
2025 Lennard-Jones Lectureship
Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
For outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and championing a positive inclusive cu...
2025 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Gideon Davies and Paul Walton
For the team's ground-breaking synergistic studies of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase enzymes and insights into the copper histidine brace activ...
2020 Rita and John Cornforth Award
Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases
For the development of new tools to deliver the identification, and chemical and genetic validation, of multiple new drug targets for leishmaniasis...
2026 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Gonçalo Bernardes
University of Cambridge
For the design, development and application of targeted therapeutics including small molecule-based RNA degradation and conditional activation of c...
2024 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Graeme Day
University of Southampton, UK
For pioneering the development of computational methods for guiding the discovery of functional molecular crystals.
2023 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Great Science Share for Schools
For inspiring 5-14 years olds in practical science, through a collaborative campaign focused on pupils asking,investigating and sharing their scien...
2024 Team Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Green Circular Solvent Team
For a partnership that has demonstrated a diverse range of applications of the bio-derived, non-toxic solvent Cyrene™ towards safe and sustainable...
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize
Greenhead College Chemistry Department
For enhancing and enriching the chemistry learning of a huge and diverse group of students by offering a high quality and broad chemistry education...
2022 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
Grégoire Bastide, Anna Remund, Dina Oosthuizen, Nina Derr...
Paper: Handheld device quantifies breath acetone for real-life metabolic health monitoring
2023 Sensors & Diagnostics Outstanding Early Career Research Award
GSK-Crick Prosperity Partnership
For the development of a transformative covalent chemoproteomics discovery platform, incorporating high-throughput chemistry and machine learning m...
2026 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Guanjie He
University College London, UK
For developing critical components of sustainable and safe energy storage and conversion technologies.
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Guanjie He
University College London, UK
Winner 2025: for making significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry in their early career.
2025 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship
Hanna Breunig
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
For an outstanding emerging investigator working in an energy research topic within the scope of the journal Energy & Environmental Science.
2023 EES Lectureship
Haritz Sardon
University of the Basque Country, Spain
For making significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career.
2024 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship
Harm Reduction
For the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on policing and harm reduction.
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
Yearly celebrations
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