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Award
The Centenary Prize is an award granted annually by the United Kingdom-based
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to up to three "outstanding chemists, who are also exceptional communicators, from overseas".
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The prize, established in 1947, and first awarded in 1949, by the RSC's forerunner, the
Chemical Society , is named after the centenary of that organisation's founding, in 1841. Winners are given a £5000 cash prize, a medal and a certificate, and undertake a lecture tour of the UK.
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Winners
2023
Christopher Barner-Kowollik ,
Mercouri Kanatzidis ,
Mark Grinstaff
2022
Michelle Chang ,
Joseph Francisco ,
Catherine Murphy
2021
Bin Liu ,
Jean-Luc Brédas ,
Douglas Stephan
2020
Eric Anslyn ,
Teri W. Odom ,
James Tour
2019
Laura Kiessling ,
David MacMillan ,
Roberta Sessoli
2018
Jacqueline Barton ,
John Hartwig ,
Richard Kaner
2017
Odile Eisenstein ,
William J. Evans ,
Ben Feringa
2016
Kenneth Suslick ,
R. J. Dwayne Miller ,
Michael Grätzel
2015
Chad Mirkin ,
Geoffrey Ozin ,
Jean-Marie Tarascon ,
2014
Eiichi Nakamura ,
Fraser Stoddart ,
Karen L. Wooley
2013
Robert H. Crabtree ,
Richard Silverman ,
Chi-Ming Che
2012
Craig Hawker ,
Timothy M. Swager ,
Stephen Withers [
Wikidata ]
2011
G. Marius Clore ,
Jonathan Sessler ,
R. Graham Cooks
2010
Avelino Corma Canos ,
Stephen Lippard ,
Omar Yaghi
2009
Aaron Ciechanover ,
Yoshinori Yamamoto [
Wikidata ] ,
Martin Jansen [
de ]
2008
F. Fleming Crim [
Wikidata ] ,
Masakatsu Shibasaki ,
Achim Müller
2007
Trygve Helgaker ,
Don Tilley ,
James A. Marshall [
Wikidata ]
2006
Stephen J. Benkovic ,
Hans-Joachim Freund [
de ] ,
Ilya I. Moiseev
2005
Goverdhan Mehta ,
Vivian Wing-Wah Yam ,
Royce W. Murray
2004
Robert Grubbs ,
Eric Herbst [
Wikidata ] ,
Marc-Jacques Ledoux [
Wikidata ]
2003
Akkihebbal Ravishankara ,
Edward I. Solomon ,
Alois Fürstner
2002
Manfred T. Reetz ,
Gérard Jaouen [
Wikidata ] ,
Amos B. Smith
2001
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou ,
Richard J. Saykally ,
Karl Weighardt
2000
Maurice Brookhart ,
Jean F. Normant [
fr ] ,
C. N. R. Rao
1999
Jean-Pierre Sauvage ,
Henri Kagan ,
Robin Hochstrasser
1998
Robert F. Curl ,
Marion Frederick Hawthorne ,
James D. White [
Wikidata ]
1997
Richard Zare ,
Larry E. Overman ,
Arndt Simon
1996
Colette Demuynck [
Wikidata ] ,
Helmut Ringsdorf ,
Tobin J. Marks
1995
Clayton H. Heathcock ,
Vincenzo Balzani ,
Graham R. Fleming
1994
Malcolm H. Chisholm ,
A. Ian Scott ,
Kirill Zamaraev [
ru ]
1993
Alexander Pines ,
Barry Sharpless ,
Helmut Werner [
de ]
1992
Leo A. Paquette ,
Alan Sargeson ,
Henry F. Schaefer
1991
Vitaly Goldansky [
de ;
ru ] ,
Athelstan Beckwith ,
Thomas J. Meyer [
Wikidata ]
1990
Richard R. Schrock ,
Dieter Seebach ,
Noel S. Hush
1989
Carlo Floriani [
Wikidata ] ,
Marc Julia ,
Endel Lippmaa
1988
Rudolph A. Marcus ,
Ryōji Noyori ,
Warren R. Roper
1987
Allen J. Bard ,
William A. G. Graham [
Wikidata ] ,
Christopher T. Walsh
1986
Robert Bruce Merrifield ,
Stuart A. Rice ,
Alan H. Cowley
1985
Gerhard Ertl ,
Léon Ghosez [
Wikidata ] ,
Herbert W. Roesky
1984
Harry B. Gray ,
Meir Lahav ,
Benjamin Widom
1983
Gábor A. Somorjai ,
Virgil Boekelheide ,
Hubert Schmidbaur [
de ]
1982
Alan MacDiarmid ,
Massimo Simonetta [
Wikidata ] ,
Albert I. Meyers
1981
Barry Trost ,
Earl Muetterties ,
Takeshi Oka
1980
James Ibers ,
Jean-Marie Lehn ,
Mark E. Volpin [
de ;
ru ] ,
Jürgen Troe
1979
Richard H. Holm ,
Satoru Masamune [
Wikidata ] ,
Henry Taube
1978
Heinz Gerischer ,
Koji Nakanishi ,
Heinrich Nöth [
de ]
1977
Jack D. Dunitz ,
George A. Olah ,
Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
1976
Dudley R. Herschbach ,
Alfred Edward Ringwood ,
Karel Wiesner
1975
Donald J. Cram ,
John B. Goodenough ,
Willis H. Flygare
1974
Gilbert Stork ,
Ernst Otto Fischer ,
Roald Hoffmann
1973
Duilio Arigoni ,
Frank Albert Cotton ,
Hellmuth Fischer [
de ]
1972
John Anthony Pople ,
Jan Peter Toennies ,
William Summer Johnson
1971
Ronald Breslow ,
William Lipscomb
1970
Elias J. Corey ,
Edgar Bright Wilson
1969
Albert Eschenmoser
1968
Erwin Wilhelm Müller ,
Paul Doughty Bartlett
1967
Saul Winstein
1966
Shōji Shibata [
de ] ,
Lars Gunnar Sillen [
sv ]
1965
Charles B. Colburn [
Wikidata ] ,
Wiktor Kemula ,
John D. Roberts
1964
John C. Polanyi ,
Feodor Lynen
1963
Carl Djerassi
1962
Frank Westheimer ,
Richard Kuhn
1961
George B. Kistiakowsky ,
Hans Schmid (chemist) [
de ]
1960
Rolf Huisgen ,
Alexander Nikolaievich Terenin [
de ]
1959
George Hamilton Cady [
de ] ,
Nils Andreas Sørensen ,
Michael Heidelberger
1958
Gerhard Herzberg ,
Klaus Clusius ,
Wilhelm Klemm
1957
Hans Brockmann [
de ] ,
Odd Hassel
1956
Glenn T. Seaborg
1955
Melvin Calvin ,
Herbert C. Brown
1954
Richard H. F. Manske [
Wikidata ]
1953
Arne Tiselius
1952
Tadeusz Reichstein
1951
Robert B. Woodward ,
Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang
1950
Placidus Plattner [
Wikidata ]
1949
Vladimir Prelog ,
Edgar Lederer [
fr ;
de ] ,
Michel Magat [
Wikidata ]
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