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 Christopher Hardacre
University of Manchester, UK
For outstanding contributions to the areas of liquid and gas phase heterogeneous catalysis.
Professor Christopher Hunter
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering a quantitative description of non-covalent interactions and establishing key principles in supramolecular design to create duplex-fo...
Professor Claire Carmalt
University College London, UK
For contributions to the development of functional thin films as transparent conducting oxides, photocatalysts and heterojunction photoanodes for p...
Professor Claire Corkhill
University of Sheffield, UK
For advances in ceramic and glass materials for the safe immobilisation of radioactive waste through fundamental understanding of surface degradati...
Professor Dame Margaret
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
For a large body of pioneering work spanning the fields of natural product synthesis, peptide chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.
Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize: awarded for innovative contributions to the field of electrochemical sensors for biomedical applications.
Professor Darren Dixon
University of Oxford, UK
For the discovery, development and applications of iridium-catalysed reductive functionalisation of amides and lactams.
Professor Daryl Williams
Imperial College London and Surface Measurement Systems Limited
For the pioneering invention of the dynamic vapour sorption instrument, which has transformed research laboratory practise worldwide.
Professor Dave Adams
University of Glasgow, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for Chemistry: awarded for the chemical control of reactivity and functionality in soft materials.
Professor David Evans
John Innes Centre, Norwich and 欧美AV Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group
For outstanding service to the 欧美AV through the activities of our inorganic and biochemical member-led communities.
Professor David K Smith
University of York, UK
For pioneering an understanding of molecular materials based on supramolecular gels.
Professor David Procter
University of Manchester, UK
For the development of new methods in the synthesis and use of heterocycles in the areas of radical and organosulfur chemistry.
Professor Dermot O'Hare
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering new concepts in materials chemistry, catalysis, and nanomaterials and promoting their application and commercialisation in sustainab...
Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of...
Professor Doug Stephan
University of Toronto, USA
For the discovery of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs” and their wide applicability in bond-forming and catalysis, and for excellence in communication.
Professor Duncan Graham
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling...
Professor Eduardo Peris
Universitat Jaume I
For the application of creative thinking in approaching fundamental challenges in organometallic chemistry and catalysis.
Professor Edward Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For creative contributions to organic synthesis and synthetic methodology.
Professor Edward Tate
Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute
For contributions to discovery of novel chemical probes, and their application in opening up new understanding of protein modification in living sy...
Professor Eleanor Schofield
Mary Rose Trust
For contributions to understanding degradation processes in archaeological materials, cultural heritage science and conservation.
