Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Professor Matthew Rigby
University of Bristol, England
For research on the abundances and fluxes of environmentally harmful gases in the atmosphere, which has contributed to a measurable reduction in em...
Professor Mauro Pasta
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for innovative research on novel battery chemistries that go beyond the current state-of...
Melanie Cooper
Michigan State University, USA
For outstanding accomplishments in designing, implementing and evaluating evidence-based chemistry curricula and catalysing the careers of many che...
Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan, USA
For the development of catalytic C–H functionalization reactions and their applications in organic synthesis.
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Northwestern University, USA
For pioneering contributions to the synthesis and development of novel semiconducting halide perovskites for application in solar energy conversion...
Professor Michael Ashfold
University of Bristol, England
For outstanding service to the 番茄社区 of Chemistry through our member communities and governance groups.
Professor Michael George
The University of Nottingham, England
For pioneering innovations in flow chemistry, reactor engineering and reaction monitoring for continuous chemical processing.
Professor Michael Ingleson
University of Edinburgh, UK
For new approaches to C–H borylation using zinc catalysts and bis-borane electrophiles.
Professor Michael Seery
The Open University
For sustained and substantial scholarship in approaches to teaching and learning chemistry, and for providing leadership and support to others carr...
Michael Wasielewski
Northwestern University, USA
For contributions toward understanding electron spin dynamics in molecular systems for applications in quantum information science.
Professor Michelle Chang
University of California Berkeley, USA
For seminal contributions in biosynthesis and biocatalysis to advance energy and environmental science and biomedical research, and for excellence...
Professor Nguy峄卬 T K Thanh
University College London, England
For outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary research on fundamental understanding of chemical syntheses, physical studies of plasmonic and m...
Nicholas Kotov
University of Michigan, USA
For innovative studies and applications of complex self-assembling nanosystems, and for excellence in communication.
Professor Nicholas Long
Imperial College London, England
For innovative synthetic chemistry applied to the fields of functional materials and biomedical imaging.
Professor Nora de
University of Leeds, England
For the development and application of computational chemistry to enable atomic-level insights into biomedical materials for in vivo and nature-ins...
Professor Norberto Lopes
University of São Paulo, Brazil
For pioneering analytical and polyomic studies that inform chemical ecology and natural product modes of action.
Professor Omar Yaghi
University of California Berkeley, USA
For the impactful development of water harvesting from desert air using metal–organic frameworks.
Paolo Melchiorre
University of Bologna, Italy
For the development of asymmetric photocatalytic methodologies based on excited state intermediates.
Paolo Samor矛
Université de Strasbourg, France
For pioneering work on the use of supramolecular and nano-chemistry to manufacture multifunctional nanomaterials and devices.
Paul Dyson
EPFL, Switzerland
For major advances in the catalytic transformations of renewable substrates leading to industrial processes and products.