Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Awarded to outstanding chemists, who are also exceptional communicators, from overseas to give lectures in the UK and Ireland.
Details
| Status | Closed |
|---|---|
| Nominations opening date | 21 October 2025 12:00am |
| Nominations closing date | 14 January 2026 12:00am |
| Nominator eligibility | 番茄社区 members |
| Nominee eligibility | Individuals |
| Nominee location | Global |
| Career stage | All career stages |
Previous winners
Professor Donna Blackmond
Scripps Research
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of...
2025 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zürich and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and f...
2025 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Professor Seth Cohen
University of California, USA
2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication: awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and...
2025 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
About this prize
Nominations for this prize will close on Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 17:00 GMT.
The Centenary Prizes are awarded to outstanding chemists, who are also exceptional communicators, from overseas to give lectures in the UK and Ireland.
- Run annually
- Up to three prizes are available
- Winners receive 拢5000, a medal and certificate
- Winners will complete a UK lecture tour
- Winners are selected by the 番茄社区 Prize Committee
Eligibility
Individuals named in any of the following roles during the nomination and judging period are not eligible to nominate or be nominated:
- 番茄社区 Subject Community Presidents
- 番茄社区 Prize Committee members
- Trustees of the 番茄社区 of Chemistry
- 番茄社区 of Chemistry staff
Nominators:
- Only 番茄社区 members can nominate for this prize.
- Nominees may NOT nominate themselves.
Nominees:
- This prize is open to nominees working outside of the UK and Ireland only.
- There are no career stage restrictions associated with this prize.
- Nominees can only be considered for one of our Research & Innovation Prizes in any given year. In a case where a nominee is nominated for more than one prize independently, 番茄社区 staff will ask the nominee which prize they would like to be considered for.
- We will not consider nominations of deceased individuals.
- We particularly encourage nominations of disabled people, those who work part-time, or whose career has spanned a break for any reason 鈥� for example, a period of parental or adoption leave, caring responsibilities, long-term illness, family commitments, or other circumstances. We understand that these can impact a nominee鈥檚 career in different ways, and encourage nominators to use the space provided on the nomination form to explain the nature and impact of the nominees鈥� individual circumstances (see 'Guidelines for Nominators' for further details).
General information
- This prize requires winners to be exceptional communicators; therefore the judging panel will be looking for evidence that nominees have been able to demonstrate outstanding lecturing ability.
- When nominating previous 番茄社区 prize winners, please remember that a person cannot be awarded twice for substantially the same body of work.
- Nominees should only be nominated once for this prize in any given prize cycle. In cases where we receive more than one nomination for the same nominee, only one nomination will go forward to judging.
- All unsuccessful nominations from the previous cycle will be retained on our nomination system ahead of the next cycle. To be considered again, nominators must log in, update details, and resubmit the nomination for the following cycle. Please note that reconsideration is no longer automatic.
- 番茄社区 staff will write to nominators and nominees to confirm when the nomination window has re-opened. Nominators will receive instructions on how to log in and update the nomination.
To make a nomination, please use our online nominations system to submit the following information:
- Your name, contact details, and membership number (please contact the 番茄社区 membership team if you do not know your membership details). Your 番茄社区 membership must be confirmed at the point of nomination 鈥� it is not sufficient to have a membership application in process. The identity of nominators is not made known to our judging panels. The 番茄社区 reserves the right to amend nominations if necessary to ensure the anonymity of the nominator.
- Your nominee鈥檚 name and contact details.
- An up to date CV for the nominee (no longer than one A4 side, 11pt text), which should include a summary of their education and career, and a maximum of 5 relevant publications or patents.
- Any information related to career breaks taken by your nominee - for example, a period of parental or adoption leave, caring responsibilities, long-term illness, family commitments, as well as any other circumstances including long-term conditions or disabilities. We understand that these can impact a nominee's career in different ways, and encourage nominators to use the space provided on the noination form to explain the nature and impact of the nominee's individual circumstances. This information will be shared with the committee, but before doing so 番茄社区 staff will always seek consent from the nominee in cases where special category data is mentioned.
- A short citation describing what the nominee should be awarded for. This must be no longer than 250 characters (including spaces) and no longer than one sentence.
- A supporting statement (up to 750 words) addressing the selection criteria. Our guidance for nominators page has more information on writing this supporting statement.
- A statement (up to 100 words) describing how your nominee is an excellent communicator, and would make the most of the opportunity to engage with early career scientists from a variety of institutions around the UK and Ireland. Please provide evidence where possible 鈥� for example, links to public lectures, details of media appearances, details of teaching awards, etc.
- A statement (up to 100 words) describing how your nominee has contributed more broadly to the scientific community. A list of possible examples is outlined in the 鈥榮election criteria鈥� tab.
- References are not required for this prize and will not be accepted.
The 番茄社区 reserves the right to rescind any prize if there are reasonable grounds to do so. All nominators will be asked to confirm that to the best of their knowledge there is no impediment, relating to professional conduct, to their nominee receiving this prize. All prize winners will be asked to sign the 番茄社区鈥檚 Code of Conduct Declaration for Recognition.
Our selection committees base their evaluations on the overall quality of relevant contributions and achievements by nominees, in relation to the selection criteria listed below.
The scientific content of any supporting publications, as described in the supporting statement, is much more important than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it is published.
The selection committee will consider the following aspects of nominations for this prize:
- Exceptional communication skills
- Originality of research
- Impact of research
- Quality of publications and/or patents and/or software
- Innovation
- Professional standing
- Collaborations and teamwork
- Other indicators of esteem indicated by the nominator
In an instance where multiple nominees are judged equally meritorious in relation to the above criteria, judging panels have the flexibility to use information provided by the nominator on the nominee鈥檚 broader contribution to the chemistry community as an additional criterion.
Examples of relevant contributions could include, but are not limited to:
- Involvement with 番茄社区 of Chemistry member groups/networks
- Teaching/demonstrating
- Effective mentorship
- Service on boards, committees or panels
- Leadership in the scientific community
- Peer-reviewer
- Promotion of diversity and inclusion
- Advocacy for chemistry
- Public engagement and outreach
The Centenary Prize was created to commemorate 100 years since the foundation of the Chemical Society.
The Prize medal depicts the Scottish chemist Thomas Graham, the first president of the Chemical Society. In 1980, the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry, together with the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry, became the 番茄社区 of Chemistry.
The prize was established in 1947 through the Centenary Fund. In 2021, the purposes of this Trust were amended, and remaining monies were combined with other generous bequests and donations to become part of the 番茄社区 Recognition Fund.
| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2025 | Professor Donna Blackmond | Scripps Research | Awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, elegant descriptions of asymmetric catalysis mechanisms, insights into the origin of biological homochirality, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2025 | Professor Sarbajit Banerjee | ETH Z眉rich and the Paul Scherrer Institute | Awarded for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and for excellence in communicating chemical principles underpinning clean energy to the public. |
| 2025 | Professor Seth Cohen | University of California San Diego | Awarded for accomplishments in the translational development of metalloenzyme inhibitors and the functionalisation of metal鈥搊rganic frameworks, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2024 | Professor Luisa De Cola | Universit脿 degli Studi di Milano | Awarded for innovative studies on how photophysically active materials and nanostructures may be fabricated for deployment within active biological systems targeting future healthcare solutions, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2024 | Professor Nicholas Kotov | University of Michigan | Awarded for innovative studies and applications of complex self-assembling nanosystems, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2024 | Professor Xiaogang Liu | National University of Singapore | Awarded for outstanding contributions to the understanding and optical manipulation of photon conversion in nanocrystals and their applications in X-ray and light-field imaging, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2023 | Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik | Queensland University of Technology | Awarded for the development and photophysical understanding of precision macromolecular photochemistry, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2023 | Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis | Northwestern University | Awarded for pioneering contributions to the synthesis and development of novel semiconducting halide perovskites for application in solar energy conversion, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2023 | Professor Mark Grinstaff | Boston University | Awarded for pioneering advances and translational research using innovative polymer platforms for new drug delivery systems and medical applications, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2022 | Professor Michelle Chang | University of California, Berkeley | Awarded for seminal contributions in biosynthesis and biocatalysis to advance energy and environmental science and biomedical research, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2022 | Professor Joseph Francisco | University of Pennsylvania | Awarded for pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2022 | Professor Catherine Murphy F番茄社区 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Awarded for pioneering work on the growth, size and shape control, biological applications and environmental implications of gold nanocrystals, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2021 | Professor Jean-Luc Br茅das | University of Arizona | Awarded for seminal contributions to our fundamental understanding of the electronic properties of organic materials for electronics and photonics, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2021 | Professor Bin Liu | National University of Singapore | Awarded for the innovative design and synthesis of organic molecules and nanomaterials to advance biomedical research and applications, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2021 | Professor Doug Stephan | University of Toronto | Awarded for the discovery of 鈥淔rustrated Lewis Pairs鈥� and their wide applicability in bond-forming and catalysis, and for excellence in communication. |
| 2020 | Professor Eric Anslyn | University of Texas at Austin | Awarded for exploiting supramolecular interactions and dynamic covalent bonding to generate assays of practical utility, and for communicating the excitement of chemistry to students of all ages. |
| 2020 | Professor Teri Odom | Northwestern University | Awarded for seminal work on multi-scale materials that enable new ways to achieve ultrafast, coherent, and directional light emission at the nanoscale. |
| 2020 | Professor James Tour | Rice University | Awarded for innovations in materials chemistry, with applications in medicine and nanotechnology. |
| 2019 | Professor Laura Kiessling | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Awarded for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the assembly, recognition and function of carbohydrates in living organisms. |
| 2019 | Professor David MacMillan | Princeton University | Awarded for groundbreaking contributions to catalysis in advancing synthetic organic chemistry. |
| 2019 | Professor Roberta Sessoli | Universit脿 degli Studi di Firenze | Awarded for world-leading research on molecular magnetism, single chain magnets and sustained memory effects in molecular systems. |
| 2018 | Professor Jacqueline Barton | California Institute of Technology | Awarded for the discovery of long-range DNA-mediated charge transport |
| 2018 | Professor John Hartwig | University of California, Berkeley | Awarded for the discovery of new catalytic reactions, their mechanistic elucidation, and their application to organic synthesis |
| 2018 | Professor Richard Kaner | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | Awarded for outstanding contributions to solid-state synthesis, energy storage materials and super hard materials. |
| 2017 | Professor Odile Eisenstein | CNRS- Universit茅 de Montpellier and University of Oslo | Awarded for seminal contributions to the theoretical understanding of transition metal complexes and the successful prediction of unknown properties and pathways |
| 2017 | Professor William Evans | University of California, Irvine | Awarded for the synthesis of new molecular compositions that can reveal new oxidation states, diatomic ions, electron configurations and magnetic properties |
| 2017 | Professor Ben Feringa | Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen | Awarded for ground-breaking research on molecular switches and molecular motors key to future molecular nanotechnology |
| 2016 | Professor Michael Graetzel | Ecole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Awarded for his pioneering contributions in molecular photovoltaics and mesoscopic solar cells |
| 2016 | Professor R J Dwayne Miller | The Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and the University of Toronto | Awarded for his contributions to the development of femtosecond electron diffraction to realise the first atomic movies of chemical reactions and for his service to making science inspiring to the general public |
| 2016 | Professor Kenneth Suslick | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Awarded for his work on the chemical effects of ultrasound and for having a substantial impact in physical chemistry, materials chemistry, and medicinal chemistry |
| 2015 | Professor Chad Mirkin | Northwestern University | Awarded for his development of spherical nucleic acids and new nanotechnology-based tools in biomedicine and materials science |
| 2015 | Professor Geoffrey Ozin | University of Toronto | Awarded for his work in defining, enabling and popularising a chemical approach to nanomaterials for innovative nanotechnology in advanced materials and biomedical science |
| 2015 | Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon | Coll猫ge de France | Awarded for outstanding contributions to the development and understanding of new ionic conductors and electrode materials for rechargeable lithium ion batteries. |
| 2014 | Professor Eiichi Nakamura | University of Tokyo | Awarded for his ground-breaking work on the science and technology of 蟺-conjugated systems, fullerenes and nanotubes, and his recent achievements in atomic resolution molecular imaging. |
| 2014 | Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart | Northwestern University | Awarded for developing the field of mechanical bond chemistry. |
| 2014 | Professor Karen Wooley | Texas A&M University | Awarded for transforming the field of polymer chemistry through the adaptation of synthetic organic chemistry concepts and the concept of macromolecular engineering. |
| 2013 | Professor Chi-Ming Che | University of Hong Kong | Awarded for his inspiring contributions over an exceptional breath of chemical sciences, including inorganic photophysics, and therapeutic applications of metal-based compounds. |
| 2013 | Professor Robert H Crabtree | Yale University | Awarded for his seminal contributions to the areas of inorganic and organometallic chemistry, and catalysis. |
| 2013 | Professor Richard Silverman | Northwestern University | Awarded for his development of mechanistic approaches to inhibit enzymes and his development of small molecules that are approved for treatment of neurological disorders. |
| 2012 | Professor Craig Hawker | University of California | Awarded for his outstanding creative development of new strategies for the design of novel polymers which has revolutionised the field of polymer synthesis and influenced a generation of chemists. |
| 2012 | Professor Timothy Swager | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Awarded for his creative genius in applying fundamental chemical principles to real-life problems, as illustrated by his invention of new materials for the selective detection of explosives. |
| 2012 | Professor Stephen Withers | University of British Columbia | Awarded for his phenomenal contributions to our understanding and redefining of enzyme reaction mechanism and to the development and application of "designer-enzymes" for the synthesis of oligosaccharides. |
| 2011 | G. Marius Clore | NIDDK, National Institutes of Health | Awarded for his pioneering work on the development of NMR for the structural characterisation of biological macromolecules. His recent work on weakly interacting complexes provides unique insights into macromolecular recognition. |
| 2011 | R. Graham Cooks | Purdue University | Awarded for pioneering contributions to molecular mass spectrometry over the past thirty years that include seminal work in tandem mass spectrometry and desorption ionization. |
| 2011 | Jonathan Sessler | University of Texas at Austin | Awarded for his groundbreaking work on polypyrrolic systems in the areas of supramolecular and medicinal chemistry. |
| 2010 | Avelino Corma | University of Valencia | Awarded in recognition of his numerous novel contributions to the design, synthesis and application of catalysts, and the profound impact of these contributions on the industrial practice of catalysis. |
| 2010 | Stephen Lippard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Awarded for his pioneering studies of biological interactions involving metal ions, with a particular focus on the reactions, physical and structural properties of metal complexes. |
| 2010 | Omar Yaghi | University of California Los Angeles | Awarded for his pioneering work in porous metal organic frameworks and their application in gas storage for clean energy. |
| 2009/2010 | Michel Che | Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie, France | Awared for his pioneering investigations on the reactivity of surfaces and heterogeneous catalysis. |
| 2009/2010 | John Katzenellenbogen | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA | Awarded for his creative combination of organic synthesis with biochemistry, molecular & structural biology, and spectroscopic methods to address major problems in biology and medicinal chemistry. |
| 2009/2010 | Leonard Lindoy | University of Sydney, Australia | Awarded his wide ranging and important contributions to coordination chemistry, ligand design and supramolecular chemistry. |
| 2009 | Aaron Ciechanover | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel | Awarded for his discovery and detailed analysis of the ubiquitin proteolytic system. |
| 2009 | Martin Jansen | Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany | Awarded for his outstanding creative contributions to solid state and materials chemistry. |
| 2009 | Yoshinori Yamamoto | Tohoku University, Japan | Awarded for his innovative contributions to methodology in organic synthesis. |
| 2008/09 | A M眉ller | ||
| 2008/09 | F Crim | ||
| 2008/09 | M Shibasaki | ||
| 2007/08 | Professor Trygve Helgaker | University of Oslo | Awareded for his important contributions to the development of methods for the calculation of molecular electronic structure for high accuracy and for large system applications. |
| 2007/08 | Professor James A Marshall | University of Virginia | Awarded for his many and brilliant contributions to synthetic and organometallic chemistry, and in particular for his outstanding work on the asymmetric synthesis of complex natural products. |
| 2007/08 | Professor T Don Tilley | University of California, Berkeley | Awarded for his brilliant contributions to synthetic and mechanistic understanding in inorganic, organometallic and materials chemistry. |
| 2006/07 | Professor Stephen J Benkovic | Pennsylvania State University | Awarded for his world-leading work to further our understanding of enzyme mechanisms at the atomic level, in particular work on the functioning of the T4 DNA replication system, bringing together a dazzling array of chemical and biophysical probes to provide a role model of how chemistry can illuminate biological questions. |
| 2006/07 | Professor Hans-Joachim Freund | Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Awarded for his outstanding contributions to the study of surfaces and of the interaction of molecules with surfaces. |
| 2006/07 | Professor Ilya I Moiseev | NS Kurkanov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry | Awarded for his very substantial and broad-ranging contribution to inorganic and organometallic chemistry on the international stage during the past four decades. As well as very notable developments in catalysis that have led to a major industrial process for the production of vinyl acetate, he has made ground-breaking advances in the chemistry of giant palladium clusters which predate contemporary excitement with nanochemistry. |
| 2005/06 | Professor Goverdhan Mehta | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Awarded for his contributions to the synthesis of natural and novel compounds (particularly terpenes, alkaloids, sugars, taxanes, ladderanes, cage compounds and fullerenes) and to photochemical, supramolecular and materials methodology. |
| 2005/06 | Professor Royce Murray | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Awarded for his innovative and influential research on the controlled modification of electrode surfaces and on the development of in situ techniques for the characterisation of the electrode/electrolyte interface. |
| 2005/06 | Professor Vivian W W Yam | University of Hong Kong | Awarded for her innovative design and synthesis of metal-based luminescent materials and novel contributions to light-induced chemical reactions. |
| 2004/05 | Professor Robert H Grubbs | California Institute of Technology | Awarded for his design, synthesis and mechanistic studies of transition metal complexes that effect the controlled catalysis of a range of important organic transformations. |
| 2004/05 | Professor Eric Herbst | Ohio State University | Awarded for his wide-ranging contributions to astrophysical chemistry, especially those leading to an understanding of the processes involved in the formation of molecules in the interstellar medium. |
| 2004/05 | Marc-Jacques M Ledoux | Universit茅 Louis Pasteur | Awarded for his development of synthetic routes to new carbon-based nanostructures and the catalytic applications of these materials. |
| 2003/04 | Professor Alois F眉rstner | MPI f眉r Kohlenforschung | Awarded for his pioneering research into the development of new synthetic methodology, particularly diene and diyne metathesis, and its application to the synthesis of complex natural products. |
| 2003/04 | Professor Edward I Solomon | Stanford University | Awarded for his application of a wide variety of spectroscopic techniques to probe the electronic structure of metal centres in proteins, notably those copper and iron sites that accomplish electron transfer of the binding and activation of molecular oxygen. |
| 2003/04 | Professor Akkihebbal R Ravishankara | NOAA, Boulder | Awarded for his wide-ranging and high quality laboratory measurements on the rates and mechanisms of homogeneous and heterogeneous processes of relevance to the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere, studies that have played a leading role in shaping our understanding of atmospheric changes - ozone depletion, climate change, stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry. |
| 2002/03 | Professor G茅rard Jaouen | ENSC Paris | Awarded for his development of the emerging field of bio-organometallic chemistry, particularly for his work directed towards cancer chemotherapy. |
| 2002/03 | Professor Manfred T Reetz | MPI f眉r Kohlenforschung | Awarded for his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis and directed evolution of enzymes. |
| 2002/03 | Professor Amos B Smith | University of Pennsylvania | Awarded for his outstanding contributions to the synthesis of complex natural products. |
| 2001/02 | Professor Kyriacos C Nicolaou | The Scripps Research Institute | Awarded for his outstanding contributions to the total synthesis of complex natural products, and to chemical biology. |
| 2001/02 | Professor Richard J Saykally | University of California, Berkeley | Awarded for his original contributions to the high resolution spectroscopy of molecules, including his recent determination of the structures of water clusters. |
| 2001/02 | Professor Karl E Wieghardt | Max-Planck-Institut f眉r Strahlenchemie | Awarded for his contributions to the development of coordination chemistry of polynuclear transition metal complexes and for his pioneering work on modelling the active sites of metalloproteins. |
| 2000/01 | Professor Maurice Brookhart | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Awarded for his contributions to the development of organometallic chemistry and for his pioneering work in opening ip so many new and exciting aspects of the subject. |
| 2000/01 | Professor Jean-Francois Normant | Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie | Awarded for his discovery and invention of new organometallic reactions, especially in the areas of organozinc chemistry and carbometallation. |
| 2000/01 | Professor C N R Rao | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Awarded for his extensive and outstanding contributions to the chemistry of solid materials. |
| 1999/00 | Professor Robin M Hochstrasser | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 1999/00 | Professor Henri B Kagan | Universit茅 Paris-Sud | |
| 1999/00 | Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage | University of Strasbourg | |
| 1998/99 | Professor Robert F Curl | Rice University | Awarded for his contributions to microwave spectroscopy. |
| 1998/99 | Professor M Fred Hawthorne | University of California, Los Angeles | Awarded for his highly original contributions to the chemistry of cluster compounds, notably boron clusters and their carba- and metalla-derivatives, which have generated structural and bonding systematics for cluster chemistry in general and afforded novel compounds for catalytic, medical and materials applications. |
| 1998/99 | Professor James D White | Oregon State University | Awarded for his elegant contributions in the area of total synthesis of a range of biologically significant and structurally complex natural products. |
| 1997/98 | Professor Larry E Overman | University of California, Irvine | |
| 1997/98 | A Simon | ||
| 1997/98 | Professor Richard N Zare | Stanford University | |
| 1996/97 | Claire Demuynck | ||
| 1996/97 | Professor Tobin J Marks | Northwestern University | |
| 1996/97 | Professor Helmut Ringsdorf | University of Mainz | |
| 1995/96 | Professor Vincenzo Balzani | University of Bologna | |
| 1995/96 | Professor Graham R Fleming | University of Chicago | |
| 1995/96 | Professor Clayton H Heathcock | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1994/95 | Professor Malcolm H Chisholm | Indiana University | |
| 1994/95 | Professor A Ian Scott | Texas A&M University | |
| 1994/95 | Professor Kirill I Zamaraev | Boreskov Institute of Catalysis | |
| 1993/94 | Professor Alexander Pines | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1993/94 | Professor K Barry Sharpless | The Scripps Research Institute | |
| 1993/94 | Professor Helmut Werner | University of W眉rzburg | |
| 1992/93 | Professor Leo A Paquette | Ohio State University | |
| 1992/93 | Professor Alan M Sargeson | Australian National University | |
| 1992/93 | Professor Henry F Schaefer | University of Georgia | |
| 1991/92 | Professor Athelstan L J Beckwith | Australian National University | |
| 1991/92 | Dr Vitali I Goldanskii | Semyonov Institute of Chemical Physics | |
| 1991/92 | Professor Thomas J Meyer | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| 1990/91 | Professor Noel S Hush | University of Sydney | |
| 1990/91 | Professor Richard R Schrock | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 1990/91 | Professor Dieter Seebach | ETH Zurich | |
| 1989/90 | Carlo Floriani | Universit茅 de Lausanne | |
| 1989/90 | Professor Marc Y Julia | Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie | |
| 1989/90 | Endel Lippmaa | Estonian National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics | |
| 1988/89 | Professor Rudolph A Marcus | California Institute of Technology | |
| 1988/89 | Professor Ryoji Noyori | Nagoya University | |
| 1988/89 | Professor Warren P Roper | University of Auckland | |
| 1987/88 | Professor Allen J Bard | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 1987/88 | Professor William A G Graham | University of Albert | |
| 1987/88 | Professor Christopher T Walsh | Harvard University | |
| 1986/87 | Professor Alan H Cowley | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 1986/87 | Professor Robert B Merrifield | Rockefeller University | |
| 1986/87 | Professor Stuart A Rice | University of Chicago | |
| 1985/86 | Professor Gerhard Ertl | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich | |
| 1985/86 | Professor Leon Ghosez | University of Li茅ge | |
| 1985/86 | Professor Herbert W Roesky | University of Gottingen | |
| 1984/85 | Professor Harry B Gray | California Institute of Technology | |
| 1984/85 | Meir Lahav | ||
| 1984/85 | Professor Benjamin Widom | Cornell University | |
| 1983/84 | Professor Virgil C Boekelheide | University of Oregon | |
| 1983/84 | Professor Hubert Schmidbaur | Technical University of Munich | |
| 1983/84 | Professor Gab贸r A Somorjai | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1982/81 | Professor Alan G MacDiarmid | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 1982/81 | Professor Albert I Meyers | Colorado State University | |
| 1982/81 | Professor Massimo Simonetta | Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche | |
| 1981/82 | Professor Earl L Muetterties | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1981/82 | Professor Takeshi Oka | University of Chicago | |
| 1981/82 | Professor Barry Trost | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 1980/81 | Professor James AIbers | Northwestern University | |
| 1980/81 | Professor Jean-Marie P Lehn | Coll猫ge de France | |
| 1980/81 | Professsor Jurgen Troe | EPFL | |
| 1980/81 | Dr Mark E Vol'pin | A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds | |
| 1979/80 | Professor Richard H Holm | Stanford University | |
| 1979/80 | Professor Satoru Masamune | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 1979/80 | Professor Henry Taube | Stanford University | |
| 1978/79 | Professor Heinz Gerischer | Fritz Haber Institute | |
| 1978/79 | Professor Koji Nakanishi | Columbia University | |
| 1978/79 | Heinrich Noth | ||
| 1977/78 | Professor Jack D Dunitz | ETH Zurich | |
| 1977/78 | Professor George A Olah | University of Southern California | |
| 1977/78 | Professor Kenneth S Pitzer | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1976/77 | Professor Dudley Herschbach | Harvard University | |
| 1976/77 | Alfred E Ringwood | Australian National University | |
| 1976/77 | Karel Wiesner | ||
| 1975/76 | Professor Donald J Cram | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 1975/76 | Professor Willis H Flygare | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| 1975/76 | Professor John B Goodenough | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 1974/75 | Professor Ernst O Fischer | Technical University of Munich | |
| 1974/75 | Professor Roald Hoffmann | Cornell University | |
| 1974/75 | Professor Gilbert Stork | Columbia University | |
| 1973/74 | Professor Duilio Arigoni | ETH Zurich | |
| 1973/74 | Professor Frank A Cotton | Texas A&M University | |
| 1973/74 | Hellmuth Fischer | ||
| 1972/73 | Professor William S Johnson | Stanford University | |
| 1972/73 | Professor John A Pople | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 1972/73 | Professor Jan P Toennies | University of Gottingen | |
| 1971/72 | Professor Ronald Breslow | Columbia University | |
| 1971/72 | Professor William N Lipscomb | Harvard University | |
| 1970/71 | Professor Elias J Corey | Harvard University | |
| 1970/71 | Professor Edgar B Wilson | Harvard University | |
| 1969/70 | Professor Albert Eschenmoser | ETH Zurich | |
| 1968/69 | Professor Paul D Bartlett | Harvard University | |
| 1968/69 | Professor Erwin W Muller | Pennsylvania State University | |
| 1967/68 | Professor Saul Winstein | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 1966/67 | Shoji Shibata | ||
| 1966/67 | Lars G Sillen | ||
| 1965/66 | Charles B Colburn | ||
| 1965/66 | Professor Wiktor Kemula | University of Warsaw | |
| 1965/66 | Professor John D Roberts | California Institute of Technology | |
| 1964/65 | Professor John C Polanyi | University of Toronto | |
| 1964/65 | Professor Feodor Lynen | Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry, Munich | |
| 1963/64 | Professor Carl Djerassi | Stanford University | |
| 1962/63 | Professor Richard Kuhn | University of Heidelberg | |
| 1962/63 | Professor Frank H Westheimer | Harvard University | |
| 1961/62 | Professor George B Kistiakowski | Harvard University | |
| 1961/62 | Hans Schmid | ||
| 1960/61 | Professor Rolf Huisgen | University of Munich | |
| 1960/61 | Alexander R Terenin | ||
| 1959/60 | George Cady | ||
| 1959/60 | Professor Nils A Sorensen | Norwegian Institute of Technology | |
| 1959/60 | Michael Heidelberger | ||
| 1958/59 | Professor Gerhard Herzberg | National Research Council, Canada | |
| 1958/59 | Professor Klaus Clusius | University of Zurich | |
| 1958/59 | Wilhelm Klemm | ||
| 1957/58 | Hans Brockmann | ||
| 1957/58 | Professor Odd Hassel | University of Oslo | |
| 1956/57 | Professor Glenn T Seaborg | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1955/56 | Professor Herbert C Brown | Purdue University | |
| 1955/56 | Professor Melvin Calvin | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1954 | Richard H Manske | ||
| 1953 | Arne W K Tiselius | University of Uppsala | |
| 1952 | Professor Tadeusz Reichstein | University of Basel | |
| 1951 | Kaj U Lindstorm-Lang | Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark | |
| 1951 | Robert B Woodward | Harvard University | |
| 1950 | Placidus A Plattner | ||
| 1949 | Professor Vladimir Prelog | ETH Zurich | |
| 1949 | Edgar Lederer | ||
| 1949 | Michel Magat |
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Research & Innovation Prizes
Our Research & Innovation Prizes recognise brilliant chemical scientists carrying out amazing work in academia and industry. They include prizes for those at different career stages in chemistry and for those working in specific fields, as well as interdisciplinary prizes and prizes for those in specific roles
Selection panel
David Rees
Astex Pharmaceuticals
Professor Mark Bradley
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Professor Claire Carmalt
University College London, UK
Professor Matthew Davies
Swansea University, UK
Dr Anabel Lanterna
University of Nottingham, UK
Professor AnnMarie O'Donoghue
Durham University, UK
Professor Neil Robertson
University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Helen Ryder
University of Manchester, UK