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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Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2025 Centenary Prize for 91AV and Communication: awarded for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and f...
Professor Savita Ladage
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
For enthusiastically advocating the importance of chemical education, through mentoring chemistry educators and initiating teacher and student prog...
Professor Scott Habershon
University of Warwick, UK
For the development of innovative computational simulation methods to predict molecular dynamics across the timescales of chemistry.
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
2025 Centenary Prize for 91AV and Communication: awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and...
Professor Sharon Ashbrook
University of St Andrews, UK
For exploiting multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, combined with first-principles calculations, to probe local structure and chemical reactivity in inor...
Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Yale University, USA
For the development and applications of analytical theories and computational methods for describing proton-coupled electron-transfer reactions and...
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
University of Cambridge, UK
2025 Khorana Prize: awarded for groundbreaking and highly influential work on the chemistry and chemical biology of nucleic acids, which has transf...
Professor Sjoerd Harder
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
For pioneering contributions in the field of s-block metal chemistry, particularly in the area of alkaline earth metal catalysis.
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...
