The Main Group Chemistry Award recognised outstanding research in any aspect of the chemistry of the s and p block elements.
This award was discontinued in 2020, as part of a series of changes introduced following an independent review of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s recognition programmes.
Main Group Chemistry Award Winners
- 2020 - Professor Sjoerd Harder
- 2018 - Professor Jose Goicoechea
- 2016 - Professor Michael Hill
- 2014 - Professor Dr Holger Braunschweig
- 2012 - Professor Dominic Wright
- 2010 - Simon Aldridge
- 2007 - T Marder
- 2005 - I Manners
- 2003 - C Jones
- 2001 - R E Mulvey
- 1999 - J D Kennedy
- 1997 - J D Woollins
- 1995 - R Snaith
- 1993 - T Chivers
- 1991 - A J Banister
- 1988 - C Eaborn
- 1986 - D G Tuck
- 1984 - J F Nixon
- 1982 - K Wade
- 1980 - A H Cowley
- 1978 - E A V Ebsworth
- 1976 - E W Abel
- 1974 - N N Greenwood
- 1972 - C C Addison
- 1970 - M F Lappert
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