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".
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.
Winners
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, 2011 G. Marius Clore, Jonathan Sessler, R. Graham Cooks 2010 Avelino Corma Canos, Stephen Lippard, Omar Yaghi the 2009/2010 lectures were delivered by: Michel Che, John Katzenellenbogen, Leonard Francis Lindoy 2009 Aaron Ciechanover, , 2008 , Masakatsu Shibasaki, Achim Müller 2007 Trygve Helgaker, Don Tilley, 2006 Stephen J. Benkovic, , Ilya I. Moiseev 2005 Goverdhan Mehta, Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Royce W. Murray 2004 Robert Grubbs, , 2003 Akkihebbal Ravishankara, Edward I. Solomon, Alois Fürstner 2002 Manfred T. Reetz, , Amos B. Smith 2001 Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, Richard J. Saykally, Karl Weighardt 2000 Maurice Brookhart, , C. N. R. Rao 1999 Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Henri Kagan, Robin Hochstrasser 1998 Robert F. Curl, Marion Frederick Hawthorne, 1997 Richard Zare, Larry E. Overman, Arndt Simon 1996 , Helmut Ringsdorf, Tobin J. Marks 1995 Clayton H. Heathcock, Vincenzo Balzani, Graham R. Fleming 1994 Malcolm H. Chisholm, A. Ian Scott, 1993 Alexander Pines, Barry Sharpless, 1992 Leo A. Paquette, Alan Sargeson, Henry F. Schaefer 1991 , Athelstan Beckwith, 1990 Richard R. Schrock, Dieter Seebach, Noel S. Hush 1989 , Marc Julia, Endel Lippmaa 1988 Rudolph A. Marcus, Ryōji Noyori, Warren R. Roper 1987 Allen J. Bard, , Christopher T. Walsh 1986 Robert Bruce Merrifield, Stuart A. Rice, Alan H. Cowley 1985 Gerhard Ertl, , Herbert W. Roesky 1984 Harry B. Gray, Meir Lahav, Benjamin Widom 1983 Gábor A. Somorjai, Virgil Boekelheide, 1982 Alan MacDiarmid, , Albert I. Meyers 1981 Barry Trost, Earl Muetterties, Takeshi Oka 1980 James Ibers, Jean-Marie Lehn, , Jürgen Troe 1979 Richard H. Holm, , Henry Taube 1978 Heinz Gerischer, Koji Nakanishi, 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, 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 , 1965 , Wiktor Kemula, John D. Roberts 1964 John C. Polanyi, Feodor Lynen 1963 Carl Djerassi 1962 Frank Westheimer, Richard Kuhn 1961 George B. Kistiakowsky, 1960 Rolf Huisgen, 1959 , Nils Andreas Sørensen, Michael Heidelberger 1958 Gerhard Herzberg, Klaus Clusius, Wilhelm Klemm 1957 , Odd Hassel 1956 Glenn T. Seaborg 1955 Melvin Calvin, Herbert C. Brown 1954 1953 Arne Tiselius 1952 Tadeusz Reichstein 1951 Robert B. Woodward, Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang 1950 1949 Vladimir Prelog, ,