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.
STEMunity
For transforming access to chemistry and STEM through inclusive, high-impact programmes that have engaged more than 10,000 underrepresented student...
2025 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
Stephen Goldup
University of Birmingham, UK
For delineating stereochemical theory of the mechanical bond, the discovery of new mechanical stereogenic units, and developing flexible methodolog...
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Steven Armes
University of Sheffield, UK
For sustained and pioneering contributions to the design and synthesis of novel biocompatible polymers.
2020 Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award
Stride, Inc.
For the development of Atomic Rescue, a chemistry game in Minecraft, that has taught basic chemistry to over 10,000 students.
2023 Horizon Prizes for Education
Stuart Naismith
Gartcosh Primary School, UK
For developing an entrepreneurial approach to STEM subjects, using a variety of media, to encourage students to engage with learning.
2023 Excellence in Primary Education Prize
Sumanjot Kaur, Jingyi Chen and Ali Ubeyitogullari
Paper: Formation of nanoporous aerogels from defatted rice bran via supercritical carbon dioxide drying
2023 Sustainable Food Technology Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award
Susan Rudlin
University of Reading and ·¬ºÅ¿âapp Thames Valley Local Section
For dedication to the success and inclusivity of the education and outreach activities in the Thames Valley Local Section.
2024 Inspirational Member Award
Sustainable methanol
For the discovery, fundamental understanding, and technical development of a novel catalytic technology for the recycling of carbon dioxide to prod...
2022 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prizes
Sébastien Perrier
University of Warwick, UK
For interdisciplinary research in the synthesis and applications of therapeutic materials.
2024 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Team Ice
For the development, application and translation of chemical tools for cryobiology.
2022 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Team Nanobodies
For the development of tools for the fight against Covid-19.
2022 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Team P(V)
For the discovery of a sustainable and scalable platform of P(V) reagents for the synthesis of stereodefined and variable phosphate chimeric oligon...
2022 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prizes
Technical Support Team in the Department of Chemistry at...
For the team's pivotal role in operating the laboratory courses, supporting research and developing a highly successful and creative outreach progr...
2020 Higher Education Technical Excellence Award
Teri Odom
Northwestern University, USA
For seminal work on multi-scale materials that enable new ways to achieve ultrafast, coherent, and directional light emission at the nanoscale.
2020 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
The BoostCrop team
For the development of a library of biocompatible molecules that can on application harness solar UV energy and enhance crop growth.
2025 Faraday Horizon Prizes
The Chiral Materials Team
For the discovery of chiral organic materials that allow high control of photon and electron spin.
2022 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prizes
The DISTINCTIVE Consortium
For the delivery of research that addressed challenges associated with the continuing safe storage and disposal of radioactive legacy nuclear waste.
2020 Industry-Academia Collaboration Award
The Green Chemistry Commitment
For fostering a green chemistry community of practice that empowers educators across the world to integrate green chemistry into the science curric...
2025 Horizon Prizes for Education
The Hertfordshire and Essex High School Chemistry Department
For inspiring student progress through inspirational teaching methods and fostering a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork
2024 Team Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
The Lab_14 Collaboration
For the development of a 1st year undergraduate remote laboratory experience, which provides students with a ‘chemistry kit for the 21st century’ a...
2021 Horizon Prizes for Education