Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.


George Jackson
Winner 2025: for his outstanding work in the field of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics

Georgia Wignall
AstraZeneca, UK
2025 番茄社区 Apprentice Prize: awarded for outstanding contributions to the oligonucleotide platform, enabling more efficient process development, and...

Gideon Davies and Paul Walton
For the team's ground-breaking synergistic studies of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase enzymes and insights into the copper histidine brace activ...

Gon莽alo Bernardes
University of Cambridge, UK
For the design, development and application of targeted therapeutics including small molecule-based RNA degradation and conditional activation of c...

Graeme Day
University of Southampton, UK
For pioneering the development of computational methods for guiding the discovery of functional molecular crystals.

Green Circular Solvent Team
2025 Innovation Through Partnership Prize: awarded for a partnership that has demonstrated a diverse range of applications of the bio-derived, non-...

Greenhead College Chemistry Department
For enhancing and enriching the chemistry learning of a huge and diverse group of students by offering a high quality and broad chemistry education...

Gr茅goire Bastide, Anna Remund, Dina Oosthuizen, Nina Derr...
Paper: Handheld device quantifies breath acetone for real-life metabolic health monitoring

Hanna Breunig and Dongliang Chao
Winners 2023: for outstanding emerging investigators working in an energy research topic within the scope of the journal Energy and Environmental S...

Haritz Sardon
University of the Basque Country, Spain
Winner 2024: For making significant contributions to the field of polymer chemistry in their early career.

Harm Reduction
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prize: awarded for the application of portable technologies to identify synthetic drugs with positive impact on pol...

Harriet Bean
BASF, USA
For major contributions towards the future sustainability of production plants through improvements to process safety, asset effectiveness, through...

Hayley Simon
University College London, UK
For outstanding and innovative research on the conservation of Mary Rose iron cannonballs, which has produced unique insights to the field of conse...

High-Performance Nanozyme Designer
For the development of rational design strategies for high performance nanozymes and exploration of their biomedical applications.

Holger Braunschweig
University of Wuerzburg, Germany
For contributions to the chemistry of reactive low-oxidation-state main-group molecules, including their applications in catalysis.

House of Science New Zealand
For the development of a vast library of hands-on, bilingual science resource kits that enable thousands of primary school teachers across New Zeal...

Iain McCulloch
Princeton University, USA
For advances in the design, synthesis and innovative application of functional materials in optics, electronics, and energy.

In-cell Organometallic Redox Catalysis
For pioneering work on catalysis of redox reactions in cancer cells by synthetic organometallic complexes.

Inorganic Amorphous Nanomaterials
For innovative methods for controllable synthesis of materials combining high strength and high toughness.

Iseult Lynch
University of Birmingham, UK
For enhanced understanding of the role of biomolecule-nanomaterials interactions and the ecological corona in environmental fate and toxicity of na...