Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
Steven Armes
University of Sheffield, UK
For sustained and pioneering contributions to the design and synthesis of novel biocompatible polymers.
Professor Steven Bell
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
For pioneering work in developing Raman and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for quantitative chemical analysis.
Professor Stuart Taylor
Cardiff University, UK
For pioneering work on the discovery of catalysts that have been commercialised for environmental protection, including carbon monoxide oxidation c...
Teri Odom
Northwestern University, USA
For seminal work on multi-scale materials that enable new ways to achieve ultrafast, coherent, and directional light emission at the nanoscale.
Professor Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University, UK
2025 Bourke-Liversidge Prize: awarded for contributions to the theory of the excited state dynamics and time-resolved spectroscopy of functional or...
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
For seminal contributions to the development of organic semiconducting materials and device physics of organic photovoltaics to mitigate climate ch...
Professor Tim Bugg
University of Warwick, UK
For the discovery of bacterial enzymes for the degradation of lignin, and their application to the conversion of lignin to renewable chemicals.
Professor Timothy Donohoe
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative development of catalytic methods that activate organic molecules by redox processes.
Professor Tom Brown
University of Oxford, UK
For major contributions in the nucleic acid field, including the synthesis of biocompatible artificial DNA, and molecular tools for genetic analysi...
Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰
University of Birmingham, UK
For transformative contributions to the design, fundamental understanding and applications of solid-state materials, and of their mechanochemical a...
Professor Valeria Nicolosi
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2025 Peter Day Prize: awarded for groundbreaking work in the development of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, advancing energy storage,...
Professor Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
2025 Pedler Prize: awarded for insight and creativity to deliver concise and efficient strategies for the assembly of complex organic molecules.
Professor Vasilios Stavros
University of Warwick, UK
For contributions to gas, solution, and condensed-phase spectroscopy spanning both fundamental and applied aspects.
Professor Vernon Gibson
University of Manchester, University of Oxford and Imperial College London
For seminal contributions to fundamental and applied inorganic chemistry, and for critical work in policy setting at the interface of academia with...
Professor Vijay Chudasama
University College London, England
For the development of reagents and strategies for site-selective protein modification to enable targeted therapy, imaging and diagnostics.
Professor Volker Deringer
University of Oxford, UK
For innovative contributions to the modelling and understanding of amorphous materials.
Vy Dong
University of California, USA
For creative applications of metal hydride catalysis to address diverse challenges in organic synthesis, including carbon-carbon activation and cyc...
Professor Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
For the combined application of organic chemistry, molecular biology, and biochemistry to study posttranslationally modified peptides and phosphona...
Professor William Griffith
Imperial College London and 番茄社区 Historical Group
For outstanding service to the 番茄社区 of Chemistry through our Historical Group and for advising on activities celebrating the history of th...
Xiao Shen
Wuhan University, China
The 番茄社区 Fluorine Prize is awarded to a young researcher who has made a significant contribution to the area of fluorine chemistry and is chosen by...