Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor James McCusker
Michigan State University, USA
For the combined application of synthesis and ultrafast spectroscopy to advance our understanding of the excited-state dynamics of transition metal...
Professor James Tour
Rice University, USA
For innovations in materials chemistry, with applications in medicine and nanotechnology.
Professor Jan Verlet
Durham University, UK
For pioneering contributions to the spectroscopy and dynamics of anions in the gas-phase and at aqueous interfaces.
Professor Jason Hallett
Imperial College London, UK
For pioneering work on the development of ionic liquids as commercially relevant solvents in biorefining and the circular economy.
Professor Jason Micklefield
University of Manchester, UK
For innovative research spanning organic chemistry to molecular genetics, leading to the discovery, characterisation, and engineering of many novel...
Professor Jean-Luc Br茅das
University of Arizona, USA
For seminal contributions to our fundamental understanding of the electronic properties of organic materials for electronics and photonics, and for...
Professor Jeffrey Long
University of California Berkeley, USA
For pioneering work in the synthesis and characterization of inorganic molecules and materials exhibiting new physical phenomena.
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 Jianliang Xiao
University of Liverpool, UK
For outstanding contributions to catalysis, both in fundamental studies and commercial application.
Professor Jiashu Sun
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China
Winner 2024: For outstanding contributions to the understanding or development of miniaturised systems.
Professor Johannes Awudza
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
For outstanding service to the 番茄社区 of Chemistry in Ghana and through the Pan-African Chemistry Network.
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and 番茄社区 Analytical Division North East Region
For dedication to the planning, coordination and ongoing development of the Schools Analyst Competition.
Professor John Dean
Northumbria University and 番茄社区 Analytical Division North East Region
For outstanding service to the 番茄社区 of Chemistry through the development and support for the analytical science community and the School's...
Professor John Hepworth
University of Central Lancashire and 番茄社区 Lancaster and District Local Section
For outstanding service to the 番茄社区 of Chemistry through our Local Sections, governance committees and Board of Trustees.
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 Jonathan Reid
University of Bristol, UK
For pioneering studies of the chemical and physical properties of micron-scale aerosol particles, and their impact in atmospheric, health, analytic...
Professor Jonathan Sessler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
For pioneering work on f-element complexes of expanded porphyrins.
Professor Joseph Francisco
University of Pennsylvania, USA
For pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.
Professor Judith Driscoll
University of Cambridge, UK
For interdisciplinary work to realise unprecedented properties in a broad variety of functional oxide devices.
Professor Julie Macpherson
University of Warwick, UK
For pioneering instrumental methods and applications in electrochemistry, electroanalysis and catalysis, sensor and imaging systems, material chara...