Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
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...
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 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 Stephen Liddle
University of Manchester, UK
For extensive contributions to understanding the inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the f elements.
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 Steven Bell
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
For pioneering work in developing Raman and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for quantitative chemical analysis.
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 Sujit Datta
California Institute of Technology, USA
Winner 2024 Soft Matter Lectureship: for making major contributions to soft matter research
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...
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.
Professor Timothy Donohoe
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative development of catalytic methods that activate organic molecules by redox processes.
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 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,...
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 Vasilios Stavros
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to gas, solution, and condensed-phase spectroscopy spanning both fundamental and applied aspects.
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 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.
Professor Volker Deringer
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative contributions to the modelling and understanding of amorphous materials.
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...
Professor William Griffith
Imperial College London and RSC Historical Group
For outstanding service to the 浪花直播 through our Historical Group and for advising on activities celebrating the history of th...