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 Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
For contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional organic and metal-organic systems.
2025 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Tim Bugg
University of Warwick, UK
For the discovery of bacterial enzymes for the degradation of lignin, and their application to the conversion of lignin to renewable chemicals.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Timothy Donohoe
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative development of catalytic methods that activate organic molecules by redox processes.
2022 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Tom Brown
University of Oxford, UK
For major contributions in the nucleic acid field, including the synthesis of biocompatible artificial DNA, and molecular tools for genetic analysi...
2023 Chemistry Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
For groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage, electronic devices, and sustai...
2025 Materials Chemistry mid-career prize: Peter Day Prize
Professor Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
For insight and creativity to deliver concise and efficient strategies for the assembly of complex organic molecules.
2025 Organic Chemistry open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Vasilios Stavros
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to gas, solution, and condensed-phase spectroscopy spanning both fundamental and applied aspects.
2022 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Vernon Gibson
University of Manchester, University of Oxford and Imperial College London
For seminal contributions to fundamental and applied inorganic chemistry, and for critical work in policy setting at the interface of academia with...
2020 Lord Lewis Prize
Professor Vijay Chudasama
University College London, UK
For the development of reagents and strategies for site-selective protein modification to enable targeted therapy, imaging and diagnostics.
2021 Organic Chemistry early career prize: Hickinbottom Prize
Professor Volker Deringer
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative contributions to the modelling and understanding of amorphous materials.
2022 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Professor Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
For the combined application of organic chemistry, molecular biology, and biochemistry to study posttranslationally modified peptides and phosphona...
2020 Organic Chemistry open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor William Griffith
Imperial College London and ·¬ºÅ¿âapp Historical Group
For outstanding service to the ·¬ºÅ¿âapp through our Historical Group and for advising on activities celebrating the history of th...
2020 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor Xingyu Jiang
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
For molecular analysis employing microfluidics involving gold nanoparticles, with applications in human health
2025 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Professor Zoë Waller
University College London, UK
Winner 2024 CBBG Lectureship Award: for her outstanding contribution to the chemical biology community and her exceptional research achievements on...
2024 CBBG Lectureship
Professor Zoë Waller
University College London, UK
For contributions to our understanding of nucleic acid i-motif structure and function in a cellular context using chemical tools and structural met...
2025 Chemistry Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Pulpex x BASF x Scitech Adhesives - Coatings Collaboration
For the creation of a partnership that has delivered a new sustainable fibre packaging solution as an alternative to plastic and glass, which deliv...
2024 Innovation Through Partnership Prize
Raphaële Clément
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Winner 2024: for making significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry in their early career.
2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship
Rebecca Goss
University of St Andrews, UK
For pioneering the use of enzymatic halogenation/cross-coupling in C‒H activation.
Richard Brown
National Physical Laboratory, UK
For excellence in theoretical and practical aspects of chemical measurement leading to the recent redefinition of the mole, and communication of th...
2020 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
Robert Hoye
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering, interdisciplinary contributions to the discovery, understanding and manufacture of defect-tolerant semiconductors for energy conver...
2024 Beilby Medal and Prize