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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Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Gon莽alo 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
Gr茅goire 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 and Dongliang Chao
Winners 2023: for outstanding emerging investigators working in an energy research topic within the scope of the journal Energy and Environmental S...
2023 EES Lectureship
Haritz Sardon
University of the Basque Country, Spain
Winner 2024: 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
Harriet Bean
BASF, USA
For major contributions towards the future sustainability of production plants through improvements to process safety, asset effectiveness, through...
2024 欧美AV Apprentice Prizes
Hayley Simon
University College London, UK
For outstanding and innovative research on the conservation of Mary Rose iron cannonballs, which has produced unique insights to the field of conse...
2020 Ronald Belcher Award
High-Performance Nanozyme Designer
For the development of rational design strategies for high performance nanozymes and exploration of their biomedical applications.
2023 Dalton Horizon Prizes
Holger Braunschweig
University of Wuerzburg
For contributions to the chemistry of reactive low-oxidation-state main-group molecules, including their applications in catalysis.
2021 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
House of Science New Zealand
For the development of a vast library of hands-on, bilingual science resource kits that enable thousands of primary school teachers across New Zeal...
2022 Horizon Prizes for Education
Hua Wang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Winner 2026: For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.
2026 Biomaterials Science Lectureship
Hugo Bronstein
University of Cambridge, UK
For the design, synthesis and understanding of functional organic materials with precisely controlled excited states.
2026 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Iain McCulloch
Princeton University
For advances in the design, synthesis and innovative application of functional materials in optics, electronics, and energy.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Yearly celebrations
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