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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Paul Wender
Stanford University, USA
For extraordinary contributions encompassing groundbreaking advancements in synthesis, photochemistry, organometallic chemistry, medicinal chemistr...
2024 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Professor Barry Trost
Stanford University, USA
For continued wide ranging contributions to the development of new synthetic methods employing transition metal catalysts, and the application of t...
2020 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Professor K. Barry Sharpless
Scripps Research
For the development of the concept of ‘click’ chemistry, the invention of chemical reactions underpinning this field and the impact this continues...
2022 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Yearly celebrations
25 June 2025
12 June 2024
13 June 2023
22 November 2022
07 June 2022
23 November 2021
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