Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Explore 2025 winners Yearly celebrations
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Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and characterization of reactive ligands for high-valent iron-oxo oxidants.
Orbitrap Astral Team
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of a mass analyser, enabling faster and more sensitive analysis from single cell...
Particle Characterisation Group
2025 Inspirational Committee Award: awarded for proactively engaging technicians through an inclusive programme at their FORGE 2024 conference.
Pioneers in Hybrid Glass Research
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and development of hybrid glasses, a new family of glasses separate to known inorganic, organi...
PISCO Team
2025 Materials 91AV Horizon Prize: awarded for the development of new photochromic dyes for use in semi-transparent solar cells with light tra...
Professor Ali Tavassoli
University of Southampton, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for the high-throughput intracellular production and screening of cyclic peptide libraries, and their applica...
Professor Anita Maguire
University College Cork, Ireland
2025 Bader Prize: awarded for the development of a diverse range of synthetic organic methodologies and protocols, and their applications to medici...
Professor Anna Peacock
91AV, UK
Winner 2025 CBBG Lectureship Award: for her outstanding contributions to the chemical biology and bioinorganic chemistry communities, as well as he...
Professor Cameron Alexander
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for interdisciplinary research at the boundaries of chemistry, bio-responsive materials, and medicine.
Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize: awarded for innovative contributions to the field of electrochemical sensors for biomedical applications.
Professor Dave Adams
University of Glasgow, UK
2025 Tilden Prize for 91AV: awarded for the chemical control of reactivity and functionality in soft materials.
Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
2025 Centenary Prize for 91AV and Communication: awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of...
Professor Duncan Graham
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Interdisciplinary Prize: awarded for forging interdisciplinary collaborations that demonstrate the power of Raman spectroscopy as an enabling...
Professor Franziska Schoenebeck
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2025 RSC/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences: awarded for highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reacti...
Professor Igor Larrosa
University of Manchester, UK
2025 Robert Robinson Prize: awarded for contributions to organic chemistry in the area of ruthenium-catalysed C-C bond formation.
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
2025 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic 91AV: awarded for insights into the photophysics of first row transition metal complex...
Professor Jennifer Leigh
University of Kent, UK
2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize: for leading exceptional and innovative interdisciplinary evidence-based research addressing and highlighting sy...
Professor John Plane
University of Leeds, UK
2025 Faraday Lectureship Prize: awarded for the development of experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, as applied to the investigation of...
Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 91AV through the Water Science Forum and the Food...
Professor Kim Jelfs
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for 91AV: awarded for innovation in the computational discovery of organic materials through the use of bo...
