Sir John Robert Vane was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 along with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances".
Sir Robert Robinson was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. In 1947,he also received the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm.
Sir Jack Edward Baldwin was a British chemist. He was a Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1978–2005) and head of the organic chemistry at Oxford.
Sir Ian Heilbron DSO FRS was a Scottish chemist,who pioneered organic chemistry developed for therapeutic and industrial use.
Sir David William Cross MacMillan is a Scottish chemist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University,where he was also the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2010 to 2015. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".
David Alan Leigh FRS FRSE FRSC is a British chemist,Royal Society Research Professor and,since 2014,the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (2001–2012) and Professor of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Warwick (1998–2001).
Sir Anthony Kevin Cheetham is a British materials scientist. From 2012 to 2017 he was Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Society.
Jeremy Keith Morris Sanders is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science. He is known for his contributions to many fields including NMR spectroscopy and supramolecular chemistry. He served as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Affairs at the University of Cambridge,2011–2015.
Graham John Hutchings CBE FRS FIChemE FRSC FLSW is a British chemist,Professor for Research at Cardiff University.
John David Sutherland FRS is a British chemist at Medical Research Council (MRC),Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB),Protein &Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division. His work on the possible chemistry of early life has been widely recognised.
Harry Laurence Anderson is a British chemist in the Department of Chemistry,University of Oxford. He is well known for his contributions in the syntheses of supramolecular systems,exploration of the extraordinary physical properties of large pi-conjugated systems,and synthesis of cyclo[18]carbon. He is a Professor of Chemistry at Keble College,Oxford.
Polly Louise Arnold is director of the chemical sciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of chemistry at the University of California,Berkeley. She previously held the Crum Brown chair in the School of Chemistry,University of Edinburgh from 2007 to 2019 and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) career fellowship.
Richard Maling Barrer FRS was a New Zealand-born chemist. His areas of research included gas permeability of membranes and zeolite science,of which he was a founding figure;he also gave his name to the zeolite Barrerite. The Barrer,a unit of gas permeability,is also named after him.
Sir David Allan "Dai" Rees,FRS was a British biochemist and science administrator who was chief executive of the Medical Research Council between 1987 and 1996.
James Henderson Naismith is Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford,former Director of the Research Complex at Harwell and Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute. He previously served as Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of St Andrews. He was a member of Council of the Royal Society (2021-2022). He is currently the Vice-Chair of Council of the European X-ray Free Electron Laser and Vice-President (non-clinical) of The Academy of Medical Sciences. It has been announced that he will be the Head of the MPLS division at Oxford in the autumn of 2023.
Benjamin Guy Davis is Professor of Chemical biology in the Department of Pharmacology and a member of the Faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College,Oxford. He holds the role of Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry (2019-2024) at the Rosalind Franklin Institute.
Roger Arthur Sheldon is emeritus professor of Biocatalysis and Organic Chemistry at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Wendy Anne Bickmore is a British genome biologist known for her research on the organisation of genomic material in cells.
Stephen Mann,FRS,FRSC,is Professor of Chemistry,co-director of the Max Planck Bristol Centre for Minimal Biology,director of the Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry,director of the Centre for Protolife Research,and was principal of the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Bristol,UK.
Douglas Wade Stephan is professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto,a post he has held since 2008.
