IUPAC offers a number of awards to honor scientific contributions and expertise. \u00a0These include:<\/p>\n
IUPAC-SOONG Prize<\/strong><\/a> IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists<\/a> IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering<\/a> CHEMRAWN VII Prize\u00a0for Green Chemistry IUPAC-Richter Prize in Medicinal Chemistry<\/a> Chemistry Education Awards<\/a> IUPAC-ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry IUPAC <\/strong>International Award for Advances in Harmonized Approaches to Crop Protection Chemistry Thieme-IUPAC Prize<\/a> Polymer International \u2013 IUPAC Award Hanwha-Total<\/strong>\u00a0IUPAC Young Scientist Award <\/strong>(formerly\u00a0Samsung-IUPAC Young Scientist Award)<\/a> Stepto Lecture Award<\/a> Analytical Chemistry Awards<\/strong> Franzosini Prize<\/strong><\/a> Balarew Award<\/strong> IUPAC-Zhejiang NHU International Award for Advancements in Green Chemistry<\/strong> PhosAgro\/UNESCO\/IUPAC research grants in green chemistry
\n<\/strong>Established in 2025, the IUPAC-Soong Prize for Sustainable Chemistry is a high-profile prize awarded annually to an outstanding scientist for a breakthrough or conceptual advance,\u00a0highlighting the discovery rather than the laureate’s luminous career.
\n> <\/em>2025 Call for Nominations<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Established in 2000 to encourage outstanding young research scientists at the beginning of their careers. The awards are given for the most outstanding Ph.D. theses in the general area of the chemical sciences, as described in a 1000-word essay.
\n> 2025 Awardees<\/a>
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\n> 2023 Awardees<\/a><\/em>
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\n><\/em>\u00a02021 Awardees<\/em><\/a>
\n><\/em>\u00a02020 Awardees<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Established to acknowledge and promote the work of women chemists\/chemical engineers worldwide. Awardees are selected based on excellence in basic or applied research, distinguished accomplishments in teaching or education, or demonstrated leadership or managerial excellence in the chemical sciences. The Awards Committee is particularly interested in nominees with a history of leadership and\/or community service during their careers.
\n> 2025 Awardees<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2023 Awardees<\/em><\/a>
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\n> 2019 Awardees<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2017 Awardees<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/a><\/strong>Established to honor\u00a0a young investigator (less than 45 years of age) from a developing country who is actively contributing to research in atmospheric and green chemistry.
\n> 2022<\/em> Vivek Polshettiwar<\/em><\/a>
\n> 2020 Huizhen Liu and Banothile Makhubela<\/a>
\n> 2018 Mirabbos Hojamberdiev<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Established to acknowledge the key role that medicinal chemistry plays toward improving human health by awarding an internationally recognized scientist, preferably a medicinal chemist, whose activities or published accounts have made an outstanding contribution to the practice of medicinal chemistry or to an outstanding example of new drug discovery.
\n> 2024<\/em> Craig M. Crews<\/em><\/a>
\n> 2022 Michael E. Jung<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2020 John Macor<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2018 Peter D.J. Grootenhuis<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The IUPAC\u00a0Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) has established three awards which recognise outstanding work being done in any part of the world to promote excellence in the teaching and learning of chemistry. These are the Distinguished Contribution to Chemistry Education Award, the Outstanding Early Career Researcher in Chemistry Education Award, and a Special Recognition Award for Excellent Service to the Committee on Chemistry Education.
\n> 2024 Mei-Hung Chiu, Shelley Rap, and Amanda Bongers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Established to honor an internationally recognized scientist, whose activities or published accounts have made an outstanding contribution in the field of flow chemistry in academia or industry.
\n> 2020 Thimothy No\u00ebl<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2018\u00a0C. Oliver Kappe<\/a>
\n<\/em>> 2016\u00a0Volker Hessel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Established to\u00a0recognize individuals in government, intergovernmental organizations, industry, and academia who have exercised personal leadership for outstanding contributions to international harmonization for the regulation of crop protection chemistry.
\n> 2025 Call for Nominations<\/a>
\n> 2023 Keith Solomon<\/a>
\n> 2019 Mark Lynch<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2016 Dan Kunkel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Established to honor a scientist under 40 years of age whose research has had a major impact in synthetic organic chemistry. The prize is given on the basis of scientific merit for independent research dealing with synthesis in the broadest context of organic chemistry, including organometallic chemistry, medicinal and biological chemistry, designed molecules, and materials.
\n> 2024\u00a0Franziska Schoenebeck<\/span><\/a><\/em>
\n> 2020 Ang Li<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2018 Seth Herzon<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Established to recognize creativity in applied polymer science or polymer technology. This award celebrates the achievements of young researchers in the polymer community.
\n> 2024 Athina Anastasaki<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2022 Zachary Hudson<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2020 Guihua Yu<\/a>
\n<\/em>> 2018 Cyrille Boyer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\nEstablished to honor a early career polymer chemist. The winner of the Hanwha-Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award is chosen every other year right before the World Polymer Congress from a pool of recommended candidates who are early in their career, typically within 15 years of attaining their doctorate or equivalent degree. Appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break, worked in systems where their time period to independence may vary, or who followed an alternative study path. The award is managed by the IUPAC Polymer Division and made possible by an endowment from Samsung Total Petrochemical Co. Ltd. of South Korea.
\n> 2024 Lutz Nuhn and Rongrong Hu<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2022 Qian Chen and Eric Appel<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2020 Athina Anastasaki and Changle Chen<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2018 Andreas Walther<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2016 Moon Jeong Park and Brent Sumerlin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>> 2024 Christine Luscombe<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>
\n> 2022 Graeme Moad > presentation in CI Apr 2024<\/a>, p. 16<\/em>
\n> 2020 Tony Ryan<\/em>
\n> 2018 Chris Ober<\/em>
\n> 2016 Michael Buback<\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The Analytical Chemistry Division<\/a> of IUPAC has established two awards, including (i) the Emerging Innovator Award in Analytical Chemistry \u2013 an award to recognize outstanding work undertaken by an emerging analytical scientist that corresponds to the aims of the Analytical Chemistry Division; and (ii) the IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal \u2013 an award to recognize significant lifetime contribution to the aims of the Analytical Chemistry Division.
\n> <\/em>2025 Graham Cooks and Anna Regoutz; see announcement<\/a>
\n> 2023 Janusz Pawliszyn<\/em>, University of Waterloo,\u00a0 received the IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal, and
\nXin Yan<\/em>, Texas A&M University received the Emerging Innovator Award in Analytical Chemistry; see announcement<\/a>\u00a0
\n> 2021 Joseph Wang<\/a> and Tsuyoshi Minami<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Established to recognize a promising young contributor to the Solubility Data Project (SDP) to help them attend, in even years, the International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena (ISSP) and, in odd years, the annual meetings of the Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data. In 2023 the Franzosini Award was renamed the\u00a0Franzosini Prize<\/strong> and elevated to an award in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of critical evaluation of data in solubility and related chemical equilibria. At the same time the\u00a0Balarew Award was inaugurated to recognize a for an Outstanding Young Scientist working in the field of critical evaluation of solubility and\/or related chemical equilibria.
\n<\/em>> 2024 Cezary Gumi\u0144ski and Christian Ekberg<\/a>
\n<\/strong>> History of the Franzosini Award<\/a>; announcement of the 2022\u00a0Franzosini Award<\/a> given to Yongheum Jo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Inaugurated in 2023 to recognize a promising young scientists working in solubility and chemical equilibria to be administered of the Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data of IUPAC, the Award, with cash prize of US$ 1000 is made possible thanks to generous support of Professor Christo Balarew, professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria, who is an enthusiastic supporter of the Solubility Data Project and deeply involved in IUPAC activities.
\n<\/em>> 2024 M\u00e4rt L\u00f5kov<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nEstablished to encourage young and experienced chemists, and to emphasize the importance of advancements in Green Chemistry and the value of sciences to human progress. The award covers all the topics of Green Chemistry, such as Green and Renewable Feedstocks, Green Synthetic Routes, Green Solvents, Green Catalysis, Green products, Green Energy, and as broadly defined by OECD as Sustainable Chemistry.
\n> <\/em>2025 Awardees<\/a><\/em>
\n> 2023 Awardees<\/a>
\n<\/em>> 2021 Awardees<\/a>
\n> 2019 Awardees<\/a><\/em><\/em>
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\n<\/strong>Established to give young scientists involved in research in\u00a0green chemistry and allied areas in biochemistry, geochemistry, biotechnology, ecology and healthcare ample opportunity to demonstrate their inventiveness and provide important input to sustainable development.
\n> <\/em>2023 Call for Applications<\/a>\u00a0– <\/em>Award grants presentation<\/a> (Oct 2024)
\n> <\/em>2020 Call for Applications<\/a> – Award grants ceremony<\/a> (Nov 2023)
\n>\u00a02019 Awardees<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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