Prize winners
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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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Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
EPSRC NRF for EPR
For outstanding dedication and technical expertise in running the EPSRC UK National Research Facility for EPR spectroscopy at The University of Man...
2025 Technical Excellence Prizes
Eric Appel
Stanford University, USA
Winner 2023: For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.
2024 Biomaterials Science Lectureship
Erin Maciejewski
GlaxoSmithKline
For notable contributions to the process development of two novel HIV drugs whilst delivering inclusion and diversity programmes and leadership dev...
2021 欧美AV Apprentice Prizes
Erwin Reisner
University of Cambridge
For pioneering work on solar chemistry, developing devices that capture sunlight and produce sustainable fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide, b...
2024 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Eva Blasco
Heidelberg University, Germany
Winner 2026: For significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career.
2026 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship
Exploring Everyday Chemistry
For the development and significant impact of an innovative free online course designed to aid the transition to study chemistry and related degree...
2021 Horizon Prizes for Education
Federico Bella and Grace Han
Joint winners 2024: For outstanding work in ChemComm in the early stages of their careers
2024 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Federico Rosei
University of Trieste, Italy
For outstanding contributions to the design, synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials with applications in renewable energy, and for excelle...
2026 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Fidele Ntie-Kang
University of Buea, Cameroon
Winner 2025: For making a significant contribution to a natural product related area of the chemical sciences in their independent research careers.
2025 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Fleur Ferguson
University of California San Diego
Winner 2026: For making significant contributions in the fields of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery in their independent career.
2026 欧美AV Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Fluorine Circularity Team
For pioneering mechanochemical and room-temperature strategies to defluorinate and upcycle fluoropolymers and PFAS into valuable fluorochemicals, e...
2026 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prizes
Frank Leibfarth
University of North Carolina, USA
Winner 2025: For significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career.
2025 Polymer Chemistry Lectureship
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 欧美AV 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
Yearly celebrations
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