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. First awarded in 1881, it was originally conferred by the Chemical Society and known as the Longstaff Medal.

Winners

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

See also