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.
Professor Jeffrey Long
University of California Berkeley, USA
For pioneering work in the synthesis and characterization of inorganic molecules and materials exhibiting new physical phenomena.
Professor Jennifer Leigh
University of Kent, UK
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting sy...
Professor Jianliang Xiao
University of Liverpool, UK
For outstanding contributions to catalysis, both in fundamental studies and commercial application.
Professor Jiashu Sun
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China
Winner 2024: For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.
Professor Johannes Awudza
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry in Ghana and through the Pan-African Chemistry Network.
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through the development and support for the analytical science community and the School's...
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and RSC Analytical Division North East Region
For dedication to the planning, coordination and ongoing development of the Schools Analyst Competition.
Professor John Hepworth
University of Central Lancashire and RSC Lancaster and District Local Section
For outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through our Local Sections, governance committees and Board of Trustees.
Professor John Plane
University of Leeds, UK
2025 Faraday Lectureship Prize: awarded for the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of...
Professor Jonathan Reid
University of Bristol, UK
For pioneering studies of the chemical and physical properties of micron-scale aerosol particles, and their impact in atmospheric, health, analytic...
Professor Jonathan Sessler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
For pioneering work on f-element complexes of expanded porphyrins.
Professor Joseph Francisco
University of Pennsylvania, USA
For pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge, UK
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.
Professor Julie Macpherson
University of Warwick, UK
For pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material chara...
Professor K. Barry
Scripps Research
For the development of the concept of ‘click’ chemistry, the invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and the impact this continues...
Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the Royal Society of Chemistry through the Water Science Forum and the Food...
Professor Karen Faulds
University of Strathclyde, UK
For contributions to the field of surface enhanced spatially offset Raman scattering (SESORRS).
Professor Kenneth Suslick
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
For the invention and development of the optoelectronic nose and important contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique.
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
Professor Klaus Müllen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
For developing novel nanomaterials for single-molecule applications, organic electronics, sensing, catalysis, bio-labelling and energy conversion.
