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 Sabine Flitsch
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative contributions to the development of new tools for the enzymatic synthesis, modification and analysis of bioactive molecules, in part...
2020 Bioorganic 91AV Award
Professor Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
For deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium batteries and hybrid photovolta...
2025 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Professor Samson Jenekhe
University of Washington, USA
For outstanding contributions to synthetic chemistry, physics, and applications of conjugated polymers.
2025 Materials 91AV open prize: de Gennes Prize
Professor Sarah Haigh
University of Manchester, UK
For the development of transmission electron microscopy methods for advancing understanding of the dynamic behaviour of 2D- and nanomaterials.
2022 Analytical Science mid-career Prize
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
For original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and for excellence in communicating chemical principles underpinnin...
2025 Centenary Prizes for 91AV and Communication
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...
2023 Nyholm Prize for Education
Professor Scott Habershon
University of Warwick, UK
For the development of innovative computational simulation methods to predict molecular dynamics across the timescales of chemistry.
2024 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
For accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and the functionalisation of metal–organic frameworks, and for exc...
2025 Centenary Prizes for 91AV and Communication
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...
2021 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
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...
2020 Faraday mid-career Prize: Bourke-Liversidge Prize
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian
University of Cambridge, UK
For groundbreaking and highly influential work on the chemistry and chemical biology of nucleic acids, which has transformed our understanding of q...
2025 91AV Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
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.
2020 Main Group 91AV Award
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...
2023 Materials 91AV mid-career prize: Peter Day Prize
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...
2023 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
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.
2023 Organic 91AV mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
Professor Stephen Liddle
University of Manchester, UK
For extensive contributions to understanding the inorganic and organometallic chemistry of the f elements.
2020 Tilden Prizes for 91AV
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...
2021 Organic 91AV mid-career prize: Robert Robinson Prize
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.
2024 Analytical Science open prize: Theophilus Redwood Prize
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...
2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize
Professor Sujit Datta
Winner 2024 Soft Matter Lectureship: for making major contributions to soft matter research
2024 Soft Matter Lectureship