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


Chiroptical Harmony
For the discovery of chiroptical harmonic scattering, theoretically predicted in 1979 and demonstrated experimentally 40 years later.

Electrical Transport Spectroscopy
For the development of electron transport microscopy to experimentally determine the platinum-surface hydronium pKa and its role in pH-dependent hy...

Electron Bifurcation
For discovering the essential structural and redox potential landscapes that are required to generate high-efficiency electron bifurcation reaction...

Lighting up RNA team
For the development of two bright multi-colour fluorogenic aptamer tags, and for demystifying the fluorescence activation mechanism, enabling effic...

Single Atom Alloy Catalysis
For the development of single-atom alloys, a new class of catalysts that play a prominent role in the energy and sustainability fields.

The BoostCrop team
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and...

The PERFORM COVID-19 Team
2025 Faraday Horizon Prize: awarded for advancing the understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on the...