Longstaff Prize Explained

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.^[1] First awarded in 1881, it was originally conferred by the Chemical Society and known as the Longstaff Medal.

Winners

Source:^[2]

2022	Peter Bruce^[3]
2019	Martyn Poliakoff^[4]
2016	Paul O'Brien^[5]
2013	Steven Ley^[6]
2010	Jack Lewis^[7]
2008	Jack Baldwin
2005	Alan Carrington^[8]
2002	Robert Williams^[9]
1999	Raymond Freeman
1996	John Meurig Thomas
1993	Harold Kroto
1990	Gordon Stone
1987	Geoffrey Wilkinson
1984	Alan Battersby
1981	George Porter
1978	Dorothy Hodgkin
1975	John Stuart Anderson
1972	Derek Barton
1969	Ronald Norrish
1966	John Monteath Robertson
1963	Alexander Todd
1960	Eric Rideal
1957	Edmund Hirst
1954	John Lennard-Jones
1951	Christopher Kelk Ingold
1948	Cyril Hinshelwood
1945	Nevil Sidgwick
1942	Hugh Stott Taylor
1939	Ian Heilbron
1936	George Barger
1933	Norman Haworth, James Irvine
1930	William Hobson Mills^[10]
1927	Robert Robinson
1924	Frederick George Donnan
1921	Jocelyn Field Thorpe
1918	^[11]
1915	Martin Onslow Forster
1912	Herbert Brereton Baker^[12]
1909	Frederic Kipping^[13]
1906	Walter Noel Hartley^[14]
1903	William Jackson Pope^[15]
1900	William Henry Perkin Jr.^[16]
1897	William Ramsay^[17]
1894	Horace Tabberer Brown
1891	Francis Robert Japp^[18]
1888	William Henry Perkin^[19]
1884	Cornelius O'Sullivan^[20]
1881	Thomas Edward Thorpe

See also

• List of chemistry awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: RSC Longstaff Prize . The Royal Society of Chemistry . 10 September 2018.
2. Web site: RSC Longstaff Prize Previous Winners . The Royal Society of Chemistry . 10 September 2018.
3. Web site: Professor Sir Peter Bruce awarded Royal Society of Chemistry . St Edmund Hall . 15 June 2022 . 10 September 2022.
4. Web site: 2019 Longstaff Prize Winner . Royal Society of Chemistry . 10 January 2020.
5. Web site: Chilton . Alexander . A tale of two continents | the University of Manchester Magazine . The University of Manchester Magazine . The University of Manchester . 1 July 2019.
6. Web site: Prof Steven V. Ley CBE FMedSci FRS. www.leygroup.ch.cam.ac.uk. 10 September 2018.
7. Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham HonFRSC. 13 February 1928 -- 17 July 2014. Robin J. H.. Clark. Paul R.. Raithby. Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc.. 24 February 2016. 62. 299–322. 10.1098/rsbm.2015.0022. 75151187. 10 September 2018.
8. Web site: Obituary of Professor Alan Carrington CBE CChem FRSC FRS . The Royal Society of Chemistry . 6 January 1934 . 10 September 2018.
9. Robert Joseph Paton Williams MBE. 25 February 1926 -- 21 March 2015. H. A. O.. Hill. A. J.. Thomson. Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc.. 24 August 2016. 62. 541–570. 10.1098/rsbm.2016.0020. 64444669. 10 September 2018.
10. Proceedings of the Chemical Society . Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 1930 . 0368-1769 . 10.1039/jr93000bc001 . C001.
11. Web site: Arthur William Crossley . Graces Guide . 25 March 1926 . 10 September 2018.
12. Proceedings of the Chemical Society, Vol. 28, No. 400 . Proceedings of the Chemical Society (London) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 28 . 400 . 1912 . 0369-8718 . 10.1039/pl9122800075 . 88.
13. Proceedings of the Chemical Society, Vol. 25, No. 355 . Proceedings of the Chemical Society (London) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 25 . 355 . 1909 . 0369-8718 . 10.1039/pl9092500101 . 108.
14. Proceedings of the Chemical Society, Vol. 22, No. 314 . Proceedings of the Chemical Society (London) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 22 . 314 . 1906 . 0369-8718 . 10.1039/pl9062200235 . 246.
15. Proceedings of the Chemical Society, Vol. 19, No. 266 . Proceedings of the Chemical Society (London) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 19 . 266 . 1903 . 0369-8718 . 10.1039/pl9031900127 . 127.
16. Proceedings of the Chemical Society, Vol. 16, No. 222 . Proceedings of the Chemical Society (London) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 16 . 222 . 1900 . 0369-8718 . 10.1039/pl9001600077 . 81.
17. Proceedings of the Chemical Society, Vol. 13, No. 175 . Proceedings of the Chemical Society (London) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 13 . 175 . 1897 . 0369-8718 . 10.1039/pl8971300041 . 42.
18. Proceedings of the Chemical Society, Vol. 7, No. 96 . Proceedings of the Chemical Society (London) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 7 . 96 . 1891 . 0369-8718 . 10.1039/pl8910700053 . 54.
19. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Chemical Society, Vol. 4, No. 51 . Proceedings of the Chemical Society (London) . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 4 . 51 . 1888 . 0369-8718 . 10.1039/pl8880400041 . 42.
20. Obituary . The Analyst . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 32 . 372 . 1907 . 0003-2654 . 10.1039/an9073200073 . 73. 1907Ana....32...73. .