Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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...
Professor Vasilios Stavros
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to gas, solution, and condensed-phase spectroscopy spanning both fundamental and applied aspects.
Professor Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
2025 Pedler Prize: awarded for insight and creativity to deliver concise and efficient strategies for the assembly of complex organic molecules.
Professor Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2025 Peter Day Prize: awarded for groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage,...
Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰
University of Birmingham, UK
For transformative contributions to the design, fundamental understanding and applications of solid-state materials, and of their mechanochemical a...
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...
Professor Timothy Donohoe
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative development of catalytic methods that activate organic molecules by redox processes.
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.
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
For seminal contributions to the development of organic semiconducting materials and device physics of organic photovoltaics to mitigate climate ch...
Professor Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
2025 Bourke-Liversidge Prize: awarded for contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional or...
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.
Professor Stuart Taylor
Cardiff University, UK
For pioneering work on the discovery of catalysts that have been commercialised for environmental protection, including carbon monoxide oxidation c...
Professor Steven Bell
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
For pioneering work in developing Raman and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for quantitative chemical analysis.
Steven Armes
University of Sheffield, UK
For sustained and pioneering contributions to the design and synthesis of novel biocompatible polymers.
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...
Professor Stephen Liddle
University of Manchester, UK
For extensive contributions to understanding the inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the f elements.
Professor Stephen Goldup
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for delineating stereochemical theory of the mechanical bond, the discovery of new mecha...
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.
Professor Stefanie Dehnen
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
For pioneering research on molecular multinary cluster nanoarchitectures for innovative applications in catalysts, white-light emitters, and batter...
Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan
University of Cambridge, UK
For advancing research in functional polymers and nanocomposites, and their application in energy, sensing and biomedicine using microscale additiv...