Our 2024 prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
- Use the gallery below to explore our prize winners, and discover and share their stories
- Click through to profile pages to see photo galleries, insights into their work, and a question and answer session with the prize winner. You’ll also find buttons for sharing these pages using social media or email
- We have collected some of the exciting across our journals portfolio. These articles are free to access until 30 September 2024
- We are committed to supporting and improving inclusion and diversity in the chemical sciences, and this extends to our prizes programme
Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels.
Excellence in Education Prizes
Celebrating inspirational, innovative, and dedicated people working at all levels of education.
Horizon Prizes for Education
Celebrating ground-breaking innovations and initiatives that mark a step-change in science education.
Horizon Prizes
Celebrating discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
Inclusion and Diversity Prize
Celebrating people improving access and progression for all in the chemical sciences.
Research & Innovation Prizes
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Volunteer Recognition Prizes
Celebrating people who go above and beyond to form communities and support and inspire others.
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Inclusion and diversity in our prizes
We want to recognise excellent science, whoever is behind it, and ensure everyone is included, whatever their background or role.
Following the publication of an independent review of our recognition programmes, Re-thinking recognition: Science prizes for the modern world, we are taking steps to make our prize portfolio more reflective of our community and how they contribute to science by:
- evolving our prize portfolio to put greater emphasis on teams and collaborations, educators, and those who are in earlier stages of their career
- expanding our definition of scientific excellence
- working with the scientific community to expand the pool of people, teams and collaborations nominated for our prizes
- continuing to review our approach to eponymous prizes
- trialling a new nominations rollover process
Since 2015 we have published annual statistics relating to diversity in our prize programme. Download diversity data for our 2024 prizes.
Inclusion and diversity in the chemical sciences
As a professional and membership body and a leading voice for the chemistry community, we are responsible for ensuring that chemistry is for everyone.
Our Inclusion and Diversity Strategy is pushing us further than before to increase the diversity of people choosing the chemical sciences and fulfilling their potential for a truly inclusive community. This will – in time – be reflected in the diversity of our prize programme.