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


Dr Andrew Wilson
University of Bath, UK
For the development of uniquely nucleophilic hydrido- and organocalcium reagents.

Dr Jiangnan Li
University of Manchester, UK
For the development of stable porous materials for the capture and conversion of NOx and SOx.

Dr Josef Boronski
University of Oxford, UK
For groundbreaking investigations into actinide-cyclobutadienyl chemistry, leading to the preparation of a σ-aromatic cluster featuring direct acti...

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 Richard Kong
Cornell University, USA
For the development of and mechanistic insight into novel bond breaking and bond making methods using main-group reagents.

Dr Selena Lockyer
University of Manchester, UK
For synthetic and spectroscopic studies of molecular magnets, particularly supramolecular assemblies that could be used in quantum information proc...