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.
Robert Worley
CLEAPSS
For significant and sustained contributions to the development and promotion of safe practical resources for teachers worldwide, especially in the...
2021 Excellence in Secondary and Further Education Prize
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group
For the development of the Open Chemistry series of meetings and workshops and the successful transition to virtual meetings due to the Covid-19 pa...
2021 Inspirational Committee Award
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Chilterns and Middlesex Local Section Committee
For developing the Chemistry Communicators' Challenge to promote science communication across their diverse member community.
2020 Inspirational Committee Award
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Food Group Committee
For developing the food chemistry periodic table in addition to addressing global challenges through events and publications.
2020 Inspirational Committee Award
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Formulation Science and Technology Group
For the successful transition of their conference programme to run online on during the Covid-19 pandemic.
2021 Inspirational Committee Award
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Medicinal Chemistry Lectureship earlier winners
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship winners prior to 2025
2012 ·¬ºÅ¿âapp Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Molecular Spectroscopy Group
For the successful transition of their programme to run online during the Covid-19 pandemic.
2022 Inspirational Committee Award
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Porous Materials Group
For the creation and development of a cohesive porous materials community.
2021 Inspirational Committee Award
·¬ºÅ¿âapp South Africa North Local Section
For proactively diversifying the committee to represent their membership community.
2024 Inspirational Committee Award
·¬ºÅ¿âapp South India Local Section
For the creation and development of a diverse programme for their community in South India.
2022 Inspirational Committee Award
·¬ºÅ¿âapp USA East Coast Local Section
For the diversification of their activities to engage a wider audience of chemists and non-chemists.
2024 Inspirational Committee Award
Saurabh Chitnis and Xiongyi Huang
Joint winners 2025: For substantial contributions to the chemical sciences in the early stages of their careers
2025 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Serena Cussen
University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
For interdisciplinary and original contributions to the development of new functional materials for energy storage and in-depth study of their loca...
2023 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Serena Parker-Sharp
Spring Grove Junior, Infant and Nursery School
For championing inclusion and diversity within the primary science curriculum to allow children of all backgrounds to see themselves as scientists.
2022 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Sign Language Incorporation in Chemistry Education (SLICE...
For pioneering and disseminating an innovative sign language lexicon to facilitate the learning of organic chemistry by d/Deaf and hard of hearing...
2022 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Sihai Yang
University of Manchester, UK
For pioneering applications of X-ray and neutron scattering techniques to porous materials science and catalysis.
2020 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry
Sina Khazaee Nejad, Haozheng Ma, Abdulrahman Al-Shami, Al...
Paper: Sustainable agriculture with LEAFS: a low-cost electrochemical analyzer of foliage stress
2025 Sensors & Diagnostics Outstanding Early Career Research Award
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.
2022 Faraday Horizon Prizes
Stalham Infant and Junior Schools
For the development of an engaging curriculum and teaching strategies, promoting a love of science and effective science learning amongst children,...
2021 Team Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Stanley Langer
·¬ºÅ¿âapp Chilterns & Middlesex Local Section and ·¬ºÅ¿âapp Historical Group
For outstanding service to the ·¬ºÅ¿âapp Chilterns & Middlesex Local Section, South East Regional Steering Group and Historical Gr...
2023 Award for Exceptional Service