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


Dr Mattia Silvi
University of Nottingham, UK
2025 Hickinbottom Prize: awarded for the development of creative synthetic strategies through the design of novel radical acceptors.

Particle Characterisation Group
2025 Inspirational Committee Award: awarded for proactively engaging technicians through an inclusive programme at their FORGE 2024 conference.

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...

Professor Zo毛 Waller
University College London, UK
2025 Jeremy Knowles Award: awarded for contributions to our understanding of nucleic acid i-motif structure and function in a cellular context usin...

Professor Saiful Islam
University of Oxford, UK
2025 Environment Prize: awarded for deepening the understanding of atomistic processes underpinning the properties of complex materials for lithium...

Dr Nathan Davison
University of Birmingham, UK
2025 Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize: awarded for significant advances in organolithium and organosodium chemistry, including the first solvent-fr...

Dr Chun Ann Huang
Imperial College London, UK
2025 Marlow Prize: awarded for pioneering the combination of imaging with X-ray Compton scattering and computed tomography (XCS-CT), and novel proc...

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 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...

Dr Clare Bakewell
King's College London, UK
2025 Sir Edward Frankland Prize: awarded for advances in the chemistry of organo-Al(III) and Mg(II) compounds, and their applications in small-mole...

Dr Rebecca Beveridge
University of Strathclyde, UK
2025 Joseph Black Prize: awarded for the application of mass spectrometry methods to the structural characterisation of dynamic protein...

Dr Guanjie He
University College London, UK
2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize for Chemistry: awarded for developing critical components of sustainable and safe energy storage and conve...

Professor K. Clive Thompson
ALS Food and Pharma UK , UK
2025 Award for Exceptional Service: awarded for outstanding service to the 番茄社区 of Chemistry through the Water Science Forum and the Food...

Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and characterization of reactive ligands for high-valent iron-oxo oxidants.