The Tilden Prize is an award that is made by the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

for advances in chemistry. The award was established in 1939 and commemorates Sir

William A. Tilden Sir William Augustus Tilden (15 August 1842 – 11 December 1926) was a British chemist. He discovered that isoprene could be made from turpentine. He was unable to turn this discovery into a way to make commercially viable synthetic rubber. L ...

, a prominent British chemist. The prize runs annually with up to three prizes available. Winners receive £5000, a medal and certificate.

Recipients

Recipients of the award, given since 1939, include: * 2021 – * 2020 –

Christiane Timmel Christiane Renate Timmel is a German chemist who is Director of the Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance at the University of Oxford. Her group make use of electron-spin resonance to understand long-range structures in chemical and biologi ...

, Stephen Liddle, Jianliang Xiao * 2019 – Russell E. Morris, Eric Mcinnes,

James Naismith James Naismith (; November 6, 1861November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United States, he wrote ...

* 2018 – ,

Jonathan Clayden Jonathan Paul Clayden (born 6 February 1968) is a Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bristol. Education In 1992 he obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge working with Dr Stuart Warren on asymmetric synthesis using p ...

, * 2017 –

Jas Pal Badyal Jas Pal Singh Badyal (born 1964) FRS is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University. Education Badyal was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1985 follo ...

, Lucy Carpenter,

Neil McKeown Neil Bruce McKeown FRSE is a chemist who is currently Crawford Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Education He was educated at the University of East Anglia (BSc, 1984; PhD, 1987). Honours McKeown was awarded the Beilby Me ...

* 2016 –

Véronique Gouverneur Véronique Gouverneur (born 8 November 1964 in Geel, Belgium) is the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Prior to the Waynflete professorship, she held a tutorial fellowship ...

, , * 2015 – ,

Leroy Cronin Leroy "Lee" Cronin FRSE FRSC (born 1 June 1973) is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, ...

David J. Wales David John Wales (born 1963) FRS One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: FRSC is a professor of Chemical Physics, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Educa ...

* 2014 –

Andrew Ian Cooper Andrew Ian Cooper FRS is Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. Education Cooper was educated at the University of Nottingham where he was awarded a PhD for research supervised by Martyn Poliakoff ...

, Guy Lloyd-Jones,

Iain McCulloch John Balfour "Iain" McCulloch (born 28 December 1954) is a Scottish former footballer. Playing as a winger or forward, McCulloch began his career with his hometown club Kilmarnock before joining Notts County in 1978. He won promotion with the M ...

* 2013 –

Steven Armes Steven Peter Armes (born 1962) is a Professor of polymer chemistry and colloid chemistry at the University of Sheffield. Education Armes was educated at Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School in Coventry and the University of Bristol where he w ...

, Eleanor Campbell, * 2012 –

Harry Anderson Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018) was an American actor, comedian and magician. He is best known for his role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984–1992 television series '' Night Court''. He later starred in the ...

, James R. Durrant, * 2011 – Jeremy Hutson, John Sutherland,

Richard Winpenny Richard Eric Parry Winpenny is a British chemist and a professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. Winpenny's research is within the fields of inorganic chemistry and ...

* 2010 – , David Leigh, * Tilden Lectureship 2009/2010 – ,

Peter Bruce Sir Peter George Bruce, is a British chemist, and Wolfson Professor of Materials in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. In 2018, he was appointed as Physical Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society. Bruce is a ...

, * 2009 – Andrew Orr-Ewing, , Christopher Hunter * 2008 –

Varinder Aggarwal Varinder Kumar Aggarwal (born 1961) is a British organic chemist specialising in asymmetric synthesis. He is a Professor of Synthetic Chemistry at the School of Chemistry of the University of Bristol. Early life Aggarwal was born in 1961 in ...

, , * 2007 – , David Logan, * 2006 – , John M.C. Plane, Matthew Rosseinsky * 2005 – , Richard G. Compton, David W. Knight * 2004 – , ,

Vernon C. Gibson Vernon Charles Gibson (born 15 November 1958) is a British scientist who served as Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence between 2012 and 2016. He is visiting professor at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, H ...

* 2003 – Andrew Holmes, David Parker, * 2002 – Anthony P. Davis,

John Goodby John William Goodby is a British materials chemist. He is the chairman of materials chemistry at the University of York. He studies liquid crystals, complex fluids and self-organising systems. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ...

, Peter Anthony Tasker * 2001 –

Lynn Gladden Dame Lynn Faith Gladden (born 30 July 1961) is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She served as Pro-vice-chancellor for research from 2010 to 2016. Gladden was elected a member of the National Academy ...

Martin Schröder Martin Schröder may refer to: * Martin Schröder (chemist) (born 1954), professor of inorganic chemistry * Martin Schröder (aviator) Johan Martin Schröder (born 13 May 1931 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch pilot and founder of Martinair, the second D ...

, Thomas J. Simpson * 2000 – , , * 1999 – , , * 1998 – Geoffrey Cloke, Dominic Tildesley, * 1997 –

David Clary Sir David Charles Clary, FRS (born 14 January 1953) is a British theoretical chemist. He was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 2005 to 2020. He was the first chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 200 ...

, Stephen G. Davies, David E. Fenton * 1996 –

Michael Ashfold Michael Norman Royston Ashfold FRS is a British chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Bristol. He is a 2011 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. He graduated B.Sc in 1975 and Ph.D in 1978 from Birmingham ...

James Feast William James Feast (born 25 June 1938) is a British chemical scientist and academic. Early life Feast was born in Birmingham to a school teacher and housewife, and was educated at the King Edward VI School in Lichfield, studying humanities b ...

, * 1995 – Jeremy K. Burdett,

Anthony J. Stace Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonii'', a '' gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton ...

, * 1994 –

Anthony Barrett Anthony Gerard Martin Barrett FRS, FMedSci is a British chemist, and Sir Derek Barton Professor of Synthesis, Glaxo Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College London. He is Director of the Wolfson Centre for Organic Chemistry in Medica ...

Robert J. Donovan Robert John Donovan (August 21, 1912 – August 8, 2003) was a Washington correspondent, author and presidential historian. He died from complications from stroke. Biography Donovan attended Lafayette High School in Buffalo, New York, where he ...

, John Evans * 1993 – Peter Edwards, Paul Madden, Douglas W. Young * 1992 – ,

Philip Kocienski Philip Joseph Kocienski (born 23 December 1946) is a British organic chemist. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds. Research Kocienski has made contributions to the design and development of new organometallic reagents in ...

Robin Perutz Robin Perutz FRS (born December 1949, in Cambridge) is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of York, where he was formerly head of department between 2000 and 2004.He is also the son of the Nobel Prize winner Max Perutz. Peru ...

* 1991 –

Graham Fleming Graham R. Fleming is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and member of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute based at UCB. Fleming's team is known for developing and using techniques in advanced multidimensiona ...

, , * 1990 – John M. Brown,

Martyn Poliakoff Sir Martyn Poliakoff (born 16 December 1947) is a British chemist, working on gaining insights into fundamental chemistry, and on developing environmentally acceptable processes and materials. The core themes of his work are supercritical fluid ...

, Robert K. Thomas * 1989 – ,

Michael Mingos David Michael Patrick Mingos, FRS (born 6 August 1944) is a British chemist and academic. He was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Education Mingos attended ...

, Jim Staunton * 1988 – Brian F. G. Johnson, David Anthony King, Stephen V. Ley * 1987 – , Anthony Kirby,

Kenneth Wade Kenneth Wade, (1932–2014) was a British chemist and professor emeritus at Durham University. Early life and education Kenneth Wade was born in Sleaford on 13 October 1932, the second son of Harry Kennington Wade and his wife, Anna Elizabet ...

* 1986 – Mark Child,

Brian T. Heaton Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word mea ...

, * 1985 – David Garner, Ronald Grigg, J H Pritchard * 1984 – David Thomas Clark, , * 1983 –

Robin Clark Robin Clark is an American vocalist known for her work as a vocalist on David Bowie's 1975 album ''Young Americans'' and Simple Minds' 1985 album ''Once Upon a Time''. Clark was born in New York. In 1966, when Clark was 16, she and future s ...

, Ian William Murison Smith,

Dudley Howard Williams Dudley Howard Williams (1937–2010) was a British biochemist known for utilizing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry in the study of molecular structure, especially the antibiotic vancomycin. Biography Dudley ...

* 1982 – C. Robin Ganellin, Malcolm Green, John Philip Simons * 1981 –

Harold Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery o ...

, , Andrew Pelter * 1980 – Edward W. Abel,

Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer who is best known for his postwar ''James Bond'' series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., a ...

, * 1979 –

John Albery Wyndham John Albery, FRS (5 April 1936 – 3 December 2013) was a British physical chemist and academic. Early life Wyndham John Albery was born on 5 April 1936. His father Michael James Albery (1910-75), a barrister, was part of a sprawling ...

, Jack Baldwin,

Peter Maitlis Peter Michael Maitlis, FRS (15 January 1933 – 18 May 2022) was a British organometallic chemist. Early life and education Maitlis was born on 15 January 1933, and educated at Hendon School (then Hendon County School) in north London 1944–5 ...

* 1978 – James K. Sutherland, * 1977 – ,

Karl Howard Overton Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

* 1976 – Richard Norman, * 1975 –

Alan R. Katritzky Alan Roy Katritzky Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (18 August 1928 – 10 February 2014) was a British-born American chemist, latterly working at the University of Florida. He was a Heterocyclic compound, heterocyclic chemistry pioneer, who pl ...

, John White * 1974 – , Bernard L. Shaw * 1973 – Charles Wayne Rees, John Meurig Thomas * 1972 –

Alan Carrington Alan Carrington CBE, FRS (6 January 1934 – 31 August 2013) was a British chemist and one of the leading spectroscopists in Britain in the late twentieth century. Education Carrington was educated at Colfe's School and the University of So ...

Michael F. Lappert Michael Franz Lappert (31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014) was a Czech-born British inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes. Early life and education Lapp ...

* 1971 –

John Cadogan Sir John Ivan George Cadogan (8 October 1930 – 9 February 2020) was a British organic chemist. Early life Cadogan was born in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom. He was educated at Swansea Grammar School, where he achieved St ...

F. Gordon A. Stone Francis Gordon Albert Stone CBE, FRS, FRSC (19 May 1925 – 6 April 2011), always known as Gordon, was a British chemist who was a prolific and decorated scholar. He specialized in the synthesis of main group and transition metal organo ...

* 1970 – Leslie Crombie, * 1969 – , Robert Williams * 1968 – Robert Haszeldine, David W. Turner * 1967 – , Jack Lewis * 1966 –

Norman Greenwood Norman Neill Greenwood FRS CChem FRSC (19 January 1925 – 14 November 2012) was an Australian-British chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds. Together with Alan Earnshaw, he wrote the textbook ''Chemistry of the Elements' ...

Basil Weedon Professor Basil Charles Leicester Weedon CBE, FRS (18 July 1923 – 10 October 2003) was an organic chemist and university administrator. Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, he was the first to map the structures of carotenoid pigme ...

* 1965 – Brian Thrush, Mark C. Whiting * 1964 – A. David Buckingham,

Franz Sondheimer Franz Sondheimer FRS (17 May 1926 – 11 February 1981) was a German-born British professor of chemistry. In 1960, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his contributions to science. Biography Franz Sondheimer was born in Stuttgart on 17 May 1926, ...

* 1963 – ,

Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson (12 February 1926 – 11 November 2016) was a British chemist and academic administrator. Biography Trotman-Dickenson was born in Wilmslow, Cheshire on 12 February 1926. His father, Edward Newton Trotman-Dicken ...

* 1962 –

Alan Battersby Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (4 March 1925 – 10 February 2018) was an English organic chemist best known for his work to define the chemical intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B12 and the reaction mechanisms of the enzymes in ...

, Rex Richards * 1961 –

Joseph Chatt Joseph Chatt (6 November 1914 – 19 May 1994) was a renowned British researcher in the area of inorganic and organometallic chemistry. His name is associated with the description of the pi-bond between transition metals and alkenes, the Dewar– ...

, * 1960 – Ronald Nyholm,

Ralph Raphael Ralph Alexander Raphael (1 January 1921 – 27 April 1998) was a British organic chemist, well known for his use of acteylene derivatives in the synthesis of natural products with biological activity. Early life and education Ralph Raphael ...

* 1959 –

Charles Kemball Charles Kemball CBE PRSE FRS FRSC FRIC (27 March 1923, in Edinburgh – 4 September 1998, in Tyninghame) was a Scottish chemist who served as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1988–91) and as President of the Royal Institute of ...

Peter Pauson Prof Peter Ludwig Israel Pauson FRSE FRIC (1925–2013) was a German–Jewish emigrant who settled in Britain and who is remembered for his contributions to chemistry, most notably the Pauson–Khand reaction and as joint discoverer of ferrocene ...

* 1958 –

James Baddiley Sir James Baddiley FRS FRSE (15 May 1918, in Manchester – 17 November 2008, in Cambridge) was a British biochemist. Early life and education Baddiley was born and brought up in Manchester. His father was director of research at the ICI ...

George Porter George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Education and early life Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, in the then West ...

* 1957 – Richard Maling Barrer, Basil Lythgoe * 1956 – , * 1955 – Douglas Hugh Everett, George Wallace Kenner * 1954 –

Michael J. S. Dewar Michael James Steuart Dewar (24 September 1918 – 10 October 1997) was an American theoretical chemist. Education and early life Dewar was the son of Scottish parents, Annie Balfour (Keith) and Francis Dewar. He received the degrees of Bache ...

, Christopher Longuet-Higgins * 1953 –

John Stuart Anderson John Stuart Anderson FRS, FAA, (9 January 1908 – 25 December 1990) was a British and Australian scientist who was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

, * 1952 –

Derek Barton Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998) was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969. Education and early life Barton was born in Gravesend, Kent, to William Thomas and Maude Henrietta Barton ( ...

, * 1951 –

Charles Coulson Charles Alfred Coulson (13 December 1910 – 7 January 1974) was a British applied mathematician and theoretical chemist. Coulson's major scientific work was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of m ...

Donald Holroyde Hey Donald Holroyde Hey Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (12 September 1904 – 21 January 1987) was a Wales, Welsh organic chemist. He was notable for his Academic publishing#Scholarly paper, paper proposing that the decomposition of benzoyl peroxid ...

* 1950 –

Frederick Dainton Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Kt, FRS, FRSE (11 November 1914 – 5 December 1997) was a British academic chemist and university administrator. A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, he was successively Professor of Physical Chemistr ...

, Francis Leslie Rose * 1949 –

Meredith Gwynne Evans Meredith Gwynne Evans, FRS (2 December 1904 – 25 December 1952) was a British physical chemist, who made important theoretical contributions in the study of chemical reaction rates and reaction mechanisms. Together with Henry Eyring and Mich ...

, Frank Stuart Spring * 1948 –

C. E. H. Bawn Cecil Edwin Henry Bawn, (6 November 1908 – 19 September 2003) was a British chemist and academic, specialising in chemical kinetics. He was Grant-Brunner Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (1948–1969) and Brunner Professor of Phys ...

, * 1947 – Ernest Gordon Cox,

Ewart Jones Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones FRS (16 March 1911 – 7 May 2002) was a Welsh organic chemist and academic administrator, whose fields of expertise led him to discoveries into the chemistry of natural products, mainly steroids, terpenes and vitam ...

* 1946 –

Albert Ernest Alexander Albert Ernest Alexander (5 January 1914 – 23 May 1970) was a British-Australian chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemi ...

Maurice Stacey Maurice Stacey CBE FRS FRIC (8 April 1907 – 9 October 1994) was a British chemist who worked alongside Sir Norman Haworth to artificially synthesize Vitamin C. Maurice Stacey was born on 8 April 1907 in Moreton, Shropshire. Stacey was educat ...

* 1945 –

Edward David Hughes Edward David Hughes (June 18, 1906June 30, 1963) was a British organic chemist. He was a professor first at University College, Bangor and then at University College in London, eventually rising to the rank of dean at each. He was elected as a F ...

, * 1944 – Wilson Baker,

John Monteath Robertson John Monteath Robertson FRS FRSE PCS CBE LLD (1900–1989) was a 20th-century Scottish chemist and crystallographer. He was the recipient of the Davy Medal in 1960 and president of the Chemical Society from 1962 to 1964. Life He was bor ...

* 1943 –

Frederick George Mann Frederick George Mann (29 June 1897 – 29 March 1982) was a British organic chemist. Academic career He completed his doctoral studies at Downing College, Cambridge under Sir William Pope, graduating in 1923. He continued at Downing as an ass ...

Harold Warris Thompson Sir Harold Warris Thompson, CBE, FRS (15 February 1908 – 31 December 1983) was an English physical chemist and spectroscopist, who also served as chairman of the Football Association. Early life and education Harold Thompson was born in Wombw ...

* 1942 – Ronald P. Bell,

John Masson Gulland John Masson Gulland (14 October 1898 – 26 October 1947) was a Scottish chemist and biochemist. His main work was on nucleic acids, morphine and aporphine alkaloids. His work at University College Nottingham on electrometric titration was im ...

* 1941 –

Harry Julius Emeléus Harry Julius Emeléus CBE, FRS (22 June 1903 – 2 December 1993) was a leading English inorganic chemist and a professor in the department of chemistry, Cambridge University. Early life Emeléus was born in Poplar, London on 22 June 1903, th ...

, Robert Downs Haworth * 1940 –

Harry Melville Harry Melville may refer to: * Harry Melville (chemist) (1908–2000), British chemist and academic administrator * Harry Melville (rugby league) (1930–1965), Australian rugby league player See also * Henry Melville (disambiguation) * Melvill ...

Alexander R. Todd Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a British people, British biochemist whose research on the structure and biosynthesis, synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the N ...

* 1939 –

Edmund Hirst Sir Edmund Langley Hirst CBE FRS FRSE (21 July 1898 – 29 October 1975), was a British chemist. Life Hirst was born in Preston, Lancashire on 21 July 1898 the son of Elizabeth (née Langley) and Rev Sim Hirst (1856-1923) a Baptist minister. He ...

References

{{authority control Awards of the Royal Society of Chemistry Awards established in 1939