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.
Dr Katherine Wheelhouse
GlaxoSmithKline
For contributions to the application and industrialisation of chemical catalysis in the pharmaceutical industry in the pursuit of more sustainable...
2022 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor Igor Larrosa
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Robert Robinson Prize: awarded for contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.
2025 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor Matthew Powner
University College London, UK
For pioneering work on the prebiotic synthesis of essential biomolecules including amino acids, peptides and co-factors.
2024 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor Stephen Fletcher
University of Oxford, UK
For the development of asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura-type and other catalytic cross-coupling reactions with racemic starting materials.
2023 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor Stephen Thomas
University of Edinburgh, UK
For the development and creative applications of novel methods to enable catalysis, using organometallic-free activation of first-row transition me...
2021 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Vy Dong
University of California, USA
For creative applications of metal hydride catalysis to address diverse challenges in organic synthesis, including carbon-carbon activation and cyc...
2020 Organic Chemistry mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
