Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor Doug Stephan
University of Toronto, USA
For the discovery of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs” and their wide applicability in bond-forming and catalysis, and for excellence in communication.
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 Eduardo Peris
Universitat Jaume I
For the application of creative thinking in approaching fundamental challenges in organometallic chemistry and catalysis.
Professor Edward Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For creative contributions to organic synthesis and synthetic methodology.
Professor Edward Tate
Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute
For contributions to discovery of novel chemical probes, and their application in opening up new understanding of protein modification in living sy...
Professor Eleanor Schofield
Mary Rose Trust
For contributions to understanding degradation processes in archaeological materials, cultural heritage science and conservation.
Professor Emma Raven
University of Bristol, UK
For seminal contributions to understanding the roles of heme in biology.
Professor Enrique Iglesia
University of California Berkeley, USA
For outstanding contributions to the mechanistic understanding of catalysis, leading scientific innovation for environmental protection and the pro...
Professor Eric Anslyn
University of Texas at Austin, USA
For exploiting supramolecular interactions and dynamic covalent bonding to generate assays of practical utility, and for communicating the exciteme...
Professor Euan Brechin
University of Edinburgh, UK
For outstanding contributions to synthetic coordination chemistry and molecular magnetism.
Professor Fernanda Duarte
University of Oxford, UK
For introducing multidisciplinary approaches to rationalise complex (bio)chemical reaction mechanisms, guiding rational molecular design.
Professor Frank Vanhaecke
Ghent University, Belgium
For the development of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) based methodologies for elemental, isotopic and single-event analysis.
Professor Franziska Schoenebeck
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2025 番茄社区/GDCh Alexander Todd-Hans Krebs Lectureship in Chemical Sciences: awarded for highly innovative advances to metal-catalysed coupling reacti...
Professor Geoffrey Maitland
Imperial College London, UK
For outstanding service to the 番茄社区 of Chemistry through our publishing activities and governance groups.
Professor Gita Sedghi
University of Liverpool, UK
For outstanding contributions to excellence in higher education teaching and for having transformative impact on the student experience.
Professor Harry Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For work on the synthesis and investigation of pi-conjugated macrocycles and new carbon allotropes.
Professor Helen Cooper
University of Birmingham, UK
For the development of native ambient mass spectrometry as an analytical technique to enable direct analysis and imaging of intact proteins and pro...
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 J. Paul
University of Edinburgh, UK
For transformative discoveries of new materials from high pressure synthesis and of novel electronic phenomena in solids.
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
2025 Dalton open Prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry: awarded for insights into the photophysics of first row transition metal complex...