Longstaff Prize

The Longstaff Prize is given to a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry who has done the most to advance the science of chemistry. ^[1] First awarded in 1881, it was originally conferred by the Chemical Society and known as the Longstaff Medal.

Winners

Source: ^[2]

2022	Peter Bruce [3]
2019	Martyn Poliakoff [4]
2016	Paul O'Brien [5]
2013	Steven Ley [6]
2010	Jack Lewis [7]
2008	Jack Baldwin
2005	Alan Carrington [8]
2002	Robert Williams [9]
1999	Raymond Freeman
1996	John Meurig Thomas
1993	Harold Kroto
1990	Gordon Stone
1987	Geoffrey Wilkinson
1984	Alan Battersby
1981	George Porter
1978	Dorothy Hodgkin
1975	John Stuart Anderson
1972	Derek Barton
1969	Ronald Norrish
1966	John Monteath Robertson
1963	Alexander Todd
1960	Eric Rideal
1957	Edmund Hirst
1954	John Lennard-Jones
1951	Christopher Kelk Ingold
1948	Cyril Hinshelwood
1945	Nevil Sidgwick
1942	Hugh Stott Taylor
1939	Ian Heilbron
1936	George Barger
1933	Norman Haworth, James Irvine
1930	William Hobson Mills [10]
1927	Robert Robinson
1924	Frederick George Donnan
1921	Jocelyn Field Thorpe
1918	Arthur William Crossley  [ Wikidata ] [11]
1915	Martin Onslow Forster
1912	Herbert Brereton Baker [12]
1909	Frederic Kipping [13]
1906	Walter Noel Hartley [14]
1903	William Jackson Pope [15]
1900	William Henry Perkin Jr. [16]
1897	William Ramsay [17]
1894	Horace Tabberer Brown
1891	Francis Robert Japp [18]
1888	William Henry Perkin [19]
1884	Cornelius O'Sullivan [20]
1881	Thomas Edward Thorpe

See also

• List of chemistry awards

References

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