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Through its prizes programme, our Analytical Division celebrates the individuals and teams from industry and academic across all career stages who contribute to the advances in analytical science as well as recognises the novel discoveries in the field.

Winners are selected by the Analytical Division Awards Committee, chaired by the Analytical Division President.

Members of our Analytical Division are recognised throughout the RSC Prize portfolio. We'd like to congratulate all the 2021 Prize Winners. 

Click on the links to find out more about our 2021 winners and join in the digital celebration.

Congratulations to the Analytical Division Research & Innovation Prize winners:

Analytical Division Early Career Award:

Joseph Black Award winner Dr Ruchi Gupta MRSC (University of Birmingham) for contributions to leaky waveguides for chemical and biological sensing.

Analytical Division Mid-Career Award winner:

Professor Karen Faulds FRSC (University of Strathclyde) for contributions to the field of surface enhanced spatially offset Raman scattering (SESORRS). 

Analytical Division Open Award winner:

Theophilus Redwood Award winner Professor Kenneth Suslick FRSC (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for the invention and development of the optoelectronic nose and important contributions to artificial olfaction as an analytical technique.

Congratulations to the 2021 Analytical Division Horizon Prize winners:

Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science Winner:

NoseToDiagnose team for a novel approach to early Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and stratification using a simple non-invasive skin swab.

Sir George Stokes Award Winner:

DMF-NMR development team for the development of Digital Microfluidics-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (DMF-NMR) technology for enhanced chemical analysis.

Other 2021 Analytical Division prize winners

Congratulations also to RSC Prize winners from across the analytical measurement science communities, including:

2021 Award for Exceptional Service for outstanding service to the 91AV

Many congratulations to Professor John Dean CSci CChem FRSC (Northumbria University) our winner of the above for the development and support for the analytical science community and the School's Analyst Competition.

Biology Interface Division Horizon Prize - Rita and John Cornforth Award winner

The GlycoTrackers team for the development of chemical precision tools for the new era of quantitative glycobiology.

2021 Faraday Division Horizon Prize

Ultrafast X-ray scattering team for the development of ultrafast x-ray scattering for studying chemical dynamics and structure in photoexcited molecules.

2021 Beilby Medal and Prize winner

Dr Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer MRSC (University of Birmingham) for unconventional lithographic structuring of applied materials and advanced nanoplatforms for optical spectroscopy.

2021 91AV Biology Interface Division open award -  Khorana Prize winner

Dr G. Marius Clore CSci CChem FRSC (National Institutes of Health) for the development of NMR-based methods to characterize protein assembly, aggregation and amyloidosis.

2021 Corday-Morgan Prize winner

Professor Jan Verlet FRSC (Durham University) for the development and application of novel spectroscopic methods to probe the fundamental physical chemistry underpinning electron-molecule reactions.

2021 Dalton Division mid-career Award - Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award winner

Dr James Wilton-Ely CChem FRSC (Imperial College London) for contributions to the application of metals in biological sensing and medical imaging.

2021 Faraday Division early career award - Marlow Award winner

Dr Brianna Heazlewood MRSC (University of Liverpool) for the development of novel experimental techniques and computational modelling to study reactive collisions at extremely low temperatures.

2021 Faraday Division mid-career Award - Bourke-Liversidge Award winner

Professor Sharon Ashbrook FRSC (University of St Andrews) for exploiting multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, combined with first-principles calculations, to probe local structure and chemical reactivity in inorganic materials.

2021 Tilden Prize winner

Professor Jonathan Reid FRSC (University of Bristol) for pioneering studies of the chemical and physical properties of micron-scale aerosol particles, and their impact in atmospheric, health, analytical and formulation sciences.

Find out more

Nominations for the 2022 Prizes will open later this year. On our website you can find out how to nominate and read about our prize categories.