Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
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Biocatalytic Nitro Hydrogenations Team
For the development of an industrially-applicable hydrogenase for mild and selective hydrogenation of nitro compounds to amines.
2025 91AV Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Biosensor Surface Innovators
For the design, development and bioanalytical application of an ultra-high frequency acoustic wave device for the antifouling-based detection of bi...
2023 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
Biosulfur Recyclers
For developing an understanding of sulfosugar metabolism and the discovery of new enzymes and pathways of sulfur recycling.
2024 91AV Biology Interface Horizon Prizes
Bismuth cure for COVID-19
For pioneering research on the medicinal chemistry of bismuth applied to the treatment of COVID-19, and identification of target sites in SARS-CoV-...
2023 Dalton Horizon Prizes
Bond Chemical Education Team
For the development of gamified virtual laboratory experiments that enhance student engagement, laboratory self-efficacy and theoretical understand...
2022 Horizon Prizes for Education
Carmen Domene
University of Bath, UK
For the use of computational techniques to enhance understanding of fundamental biological processes at the molecular level.
2023 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for 91AV
Carmen Galan
University of Bristol, UK
For the development of bioinspired and transformative synthetic probes and their application to the targeting and regulation of cellular processes...
2021 91AV Biology Interface mid-career prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Caroline Skerry
St Joseph's School
For outstanding contributions to delivering primary science teaching and supporting others to provide excellent teaching through establishing and l...
2022 Excellence in Primary Education Prize
Catherine Murphy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
For pioneering work on the growth, size and shape control, biological applications and environmental implications of gold nanocrystals, and for exc...
2022 Centenary Prizes for 91AV and Communication
Chad Mirkin
Northwestern University, USA
For contributions to supramolecular chemistry and nanoscience, in particular the invention and development of methods for nanolithography, high-are...
2021 Materials 91AV open prize: de Gennes Prize
Charlotte Williams
University of Oxford, UK
For contributions to sustainable polymer chemistry.
2021 Tilden Prizes for 91AV
ChemBAM
For pioneering chemistry experiments and activities that are accessible to people with vision impairment, and training the next generation of teach...
2023 Inclusion and Diversity Prize
ChemBAM
For inspiring the next generation of chemists through activities that link classroom teaching to real world chemistry research.
2020 Inspiration and Industry Award
91AV Lab-In-a-Box Team
For working collaboratively to ensure that undergraduate students could continue to engage with hands-on practical chemistry learning while working...
2022 Team Prize for Excellence in Higher Education
Chiral Vicinal Diamines
For the development of asymmetric reductive coupling of imines to form chiral vicinal diamines through the discovery of diboron-enabled [3,3]-sigma...
2024 Organic 91AV Horizon Prizes
Chiroptical Harmony
For the discovery of chiroptical harmonic scattering, theoretically predicted in 1979 and demonstrated experimentally 40 years later.
2022 Faraday Horizon Prizes
Chris Williamson
RSC Downland Local Section
For outstanding service to the 91AV through our member communities and governance groups.
2021 Award for Exceptional Service
Christina Dumitriu Jackson
AstraZeneca, UK
For excellence in peptide chemistry, and championing sustainability and STEM advocacy.
2025 RSC Apprentice Prizes
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
Christopher Chang
Princeton University, USA
Winner 2025: For making significant contributions to the chemical sciences community and beyond.
2025 Chemical Science Lectureship