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 Chris Abell
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering work on fragment-based drug discovery and microfluidic microdroplets.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Chris Willis
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding contributions across the broad spectrum of natural product chemistry.
2020 Natural Product 91AV Award
Professor Christiane Timmel
University of Oxford, UK
For seminal contributions to the fields of spin chemistry and electron paramagnetic resonance.
2020 Tilden Prizes for 91AV
Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
For the development and photophysical understanding of precision macromolecular photochemistry, and for excellence in communication.
2023 Centenary Prizes for 91AV and Communication
Professor Christopher Hardacre
University of Manchester, UK
For outstanding contributions to the areas of liquid and gas phase heterogeneous catalysis.
2022 Tilden Prizes for 91AV
Professor Christopher Hunter
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering a quantitative description of non-covalent interactions and establishing key principles in supramolecular design to create duplex-fo...
2020 Supramolecular 91AV Award
Professor Claire Carmalt
University College London, UK
For contributions to the development of functional thin films as transparent conducting oxides, photocatalysts and heterojunction photoanodes for p...
2024 Tilden Prizes for 91AV
Professor Claire Corkhill
University of Sheffield, UK
For advances in ceramic and glass materials for the safe immobilisation of radioactive waste through fundamental understanding of surface degradati...
2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Professor Dame Margaret Brimble
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
For a large body of pioneering work spanning the fields of natural product synthesis, peptide chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.
2022 Organic 91AV open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
For innovative contributions to the field of electrochemical sensors for biomedical applications.
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize
Professor Darren Dixon
University of Oxford, UK
For the discovery, development and applications of iridium-catalysed reductive functionalisation of amides and lactams.
2023 Tilden Prizes for 91AV
Professor Daryl Williams
Imperial College London and Surface Measurement Systems Limited
For the pioneering invention of the dynamic vapour sorption instrument, which has transformed research laboratory practise worldwide.
2020 91AV World Entrepreneur of the Year
Professor Dave Adams
University of Glasgow, UK
For the chemical control of reactivity and functionality in soft materials.
2025 Tilden Prizes for 91AV
Professor David Evans
John Innes Centre, Norwich and RSC Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group
For outstanding service to the 91AV through the activities of our inorganic and biochemical member-led communities.
2020 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor David K Smith
University of York, UK
For pioneering an understanding of molecular materials based on supramolecular gels.
2022 Tilden Prizes for 91AV
Professor David Procter
University of Manchester, UK
For the development of new methods in the synthesis and use of heterocycles in the areas of radical and organosulfur chemistry.
2020 Bader Prize for Organic 91AV
Professor Dermot O'Hare
University of Oxford, UK
For pioneering new concepts in materials chemistry, catalysis, and nanomaterials and promoting their application and commercialisation in sustainab...
2024 Materials 91AV open prize: John B Goodenough Prize
Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
For pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of asymmetric catalysis mechanisms, insights into the origin of b...
2025 Centenary Prizes for 91AV and Communication
Professor Doug Stephan
University of Toronto, Canada
For the discovery of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs” and their wide applicability in bond-forming and catalysis, and for excellence in communication.
2021 Centenary Prizes for 91AV and Communication
Professor Dr Nina Hartrampf
University of Zurich, Switzerland
In recognition of her contributions to flow-based peptide synthesis, particularly of post-translationally modified peptides and proteins, which ena...
2024 CEM Emerging Investigator in Protein and Peptide Science Award
