Prize winners

We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.

2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations

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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.

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Research & Innovation Prize winners

Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.

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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.

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Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.

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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...

2024 Materials Chemistry open prize: John B Goodenough Prize

Professor Donna Blackmond

Scripps Research

For pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of asymmetric catalysis mechanisms, insights into the origin of b...

2025 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication

Professor Doug Stephan

University of Toronto, Canada

For the discovery of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs” and their wide applicability in bond-forming and catalysis, and for excellence in communication.

2021 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication

Professor Dr Nina Hartrampf

University of Zurich

In recognition of her contributions to flow-based peptide synthesis, particularly of post-translationally modified peptides and proteins, which ena...

2024 CEM Emerging Investigator in Protein and Peptide Science Award

Professor Duncan Graham

University of Strathclyde, UK

For forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling capability in the life sciences.

2025 Interdisciplinary Prizes

Professor Eduardo Peris

Universitat Jaume I

For the application of creative thinking in approaching fundamental challenges in organometallic chemistry and catalysis.

2023 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Edward Anderson

University of Oxford, UK

For creative contributions to organic synthesis and synthetic methodology.

2020 Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry

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...

2020 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry

Professor Edward Tate

Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute

For chemical biology approaches to reveal unique insights in protein post-translational modification, and for delivering chemical probes and first-...

2026 Interdisciplinary Prizes

Professor Eleanor Schofield

Mary Rose Trust

For contributions to understanding degradation processes in archaeological materials, cultural heritage science and conservation.

2021 Interdisciplinary Prizes

Professor Emma Raven

University of Bristol, UK

For seminal contributions to understanding the roles of heme in biology.

2020 Interdisciplinary Prizes

Professor Enrique Iglesia

University of California Berkeley, USA

For outstanding contributions to the mechanistic understanding of catalysis, leading scientific innovation for environmental protection and the pro...

2023 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize

Professor Eric Anslyn

University of Texas at Austin, USA

For exploiting supramolecular interactions and dynamic covalent bonding to generate assays of practical utility, and for communicating the exciteme...

2020 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication

Professor Euan Brechin

University of Edinburgh, UK

For outstanding contributions to synthetic coordination chemistry and molecular magnetism.

2024 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry

Professor Fernanda Duarte

University of Oxford, UK

For introducing multidisciplinary approaches to rationalise complex (bio)chemical reaction mechanisms, guiding rational molecular design.

2021 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry

Professor Frank Vanhaecke

Ghent University, Belgium

For the development of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) based methodologies for elemental, isotopic and single-event analysis.

2023 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize

Professor Franziska Schoenebeck

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

For highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reactions, combining cutting-edge synthetic organic chemistry with state-of-the-art comp...

2025 欧美AV/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences