Tilden Prize Explained

Tilden Prize
Sponsor:	Royal Society of Chemistry
Reward:	£5000

The Tilden Prize is an award that is made by the Royal Society of Chemistry for advances in chemistry. The award was established in 1939 and commemorates Sir William A. Tilden, a prominent British chemist. The prize runs annually with up to three prizes available. Winners receive £5000, a medal and certificate.^[1]

Recipients

Recipients of the award, given since 1939,^[2] include:

• 2023 – Craig Banks, Darren Dixon, Julie Macpherson
• 2022 – Timothy Donohoe, Christopher Hardacre, David K. Smith
• 2021 – Jonathan Reid,,^[3] Charlotte Williams
• 2020 – Christiane Timmel, Stephen Liddle, Jianliang Xiao
• 2019 – Russell E. Morris, Eric Mcinnes, James Naismith
• 2018 –, Jonathan Clayden,
• 2017 – Jas Pal Badyal, Lucy Carpenter, Neil McKeown
• 2016 – Véronique Gouverneur,,
• 2015 –,^[4] Leroy Cronin, David J. Wales
• 2014 – Andrew Ian Cooper, Guy Lloyd-Jones, Iain McCulloch
• 2013 – Steven Armes, Eleanor Campbell,
• 2012 – Harry Anderson, James R. Durrant,
• 2011 – Jeremy Hutson, John Sutherland, Richard Winpenny
• 2010 –, David Leigh,
• Tilden Lectureship 2009/2010 –, Peter Bruce,
• 2009 – Andrew Orr-Ewing,, Christopher Hunter
• 2008 – Varinder Aggarwal,,
• 2007 –, David Logan,
• 2006 –, John M.C. Plane, Matthew Rosseinsky
• 2005 –, Richard G. Compton,^[5] David W. Knight
• 2004 –,, Vernon C. Gibson
• 2003 – Andrew Holmes, David Parker,
• 2002 – Anthony P. Davis, John Goodby, Peter Anthony Tasker
• 2001 – Lynn Gladden, Martin Schröder, Thomas J. Simpson
• 2000 –,,
• 1999 –,,
• 1998 – Geoffrey Cloke, Dominic Tildesley,
• 1997 – David Clary, Stephen G. Davies, David E. Fenton
• 1996 – Michael Ashfold, James Feast,
• 1995 – Jeremy K. Burdett, Anthony J. Stace,
• 1994 – Anthony Barrett, Robert J. Donovan, John Evans
• 1993 – Peter Edwards, Paul Madden, Douglas W. Young
• 1992 –, Philip Kocienski, Robin Perutz
• 1991 – Graham Fleming,,
• 1990 – John M. Brown, Martyn Poliakoff, Robert K. Thomas
• 1989 –, Michael Mingos, Jim Staunton
• 1988 – Brian F. G. Johnson, David Anthony King, Stephen V. Ley
• 1987 –,^[6] Anthony Kirby, Kenneth Wade
• 1986 – Mark Child, Brian T. Heaton, Robert Ramage
• 1985 – David Garner, Ronald Grigg, J H Pritchard
• 1984 – David Thomas Clark,,
• 1983 – Robin Clark, Ian William Murison Smith,^[7] Dudley Howard Williams
• 1982 – C. Robin Ganellin, Malcolm Green, John Philip Simons
• 1981 – Harold Kroto,, Andrew Pelter
• 1980 – Edward W. Abel, Ian Fleming,
• 1979 – John Albery, Jack Baldwin, Peter Maitlis
• 1978 – James K. Sutherland,
• 1977 –, Karl Howard Overton
• 1976 – Richard Norman,
• 1975 – Alan R. Katritzky, John White
• 1974 –, Bernard L. Shaw
• 1973 – Charles Wayne Rees, John Meurig Thomas
• 1972 – Alan Carrington, Michael F. Lappert
• 1971 – John Cadogan, F. Gordon A. Stone
• 1970 – Leslie Crombie,
• 1969 –, Robert Williams
• 1968 – Robert Haszeldine, David W. Turner
• 1967 –, Jack Lewis
• 1966 – Norman Greenwood, Basil Weedon
• 1965 – Brian Thrush, Mark C. Whiting
• 1964 – A. David Buckingham, Franz Sondheimer
• 1963 –, Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson
• 1962 – Alan Battersby, Rex Richards
• 1961 – Joseph Chatt,
• 1960 – Ronald Nyholm, Ralph Raphael
• 1959 – Charles Kemball, Peter Pauson
• 1958 – James Baddiley, George Porter
• 1957 – Richard Maling Barrer, Basil Lythgoe
• 1956 –,
• 1955 – Douglas Hugh Everett, George Wallace Kenner
• 1954 – Michael J. S. Dewar, Christopher Longuet-Higgins
• 1953 – John Stuart Anderson,
• 1952 – Derek Barton, Herbert Marcus Powell
• 1951 – Charles Coulson, Donald Holroyde Hey
• 1950 – Frederick Dainton, Francis Leslie Rose
• 1949 – Meredith Gwynne Evans, Frank Stuart Spring
• 1948 – C. E. H. Bawn,
• 1947 – Ernest Gordon Cox, Ewart Jones
• 1946 – Albert Ernest Alexander, Maurice Stacey
• 1945 – Edward David Hughes,
• 1944 – Wilson Baker, John Monteath Robertson
• 1943 – Frederick George Mann, Harold Warris Thompson
• 1942 – Ronald P. Bell, John Masson Gulland
• 1941 – Harry Julius Emeléus, Robert Downs Haworth
• 1940 – Harry Melville, Alexander R. Todd
• 1939 – Edmund Hirst,

See also

• List of chemistry awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: RSC Tilden Prizes. 12 May 2016.
2. Web site: RSC Tilden Prize Previous Winners. 12 May 2016.
3. Web site: Professor Jonathan Steed CChem FRSC. 14 June 2021.
4. Web site: RSC Tilden Prize 2015 . School of Chemistry . 20 May 2015 . 9 September 2018.
5. Wang . Joseph . Rees . Neil V. . Professor Richard Compton’s 60thBirthday . Electroanalysis . Wiley . 27 . 4 . 2015 . 1040-0397 . 10.1002/elan.201580033 . 844–845. free .
6. Web site: David Husain: Enterprising physical chemist . The Independent . 3 April 2008 . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-husain-enterprising-physical-chemist-804020.html . 7 May 2022 . subscription . live . 9 September 2018.
7. Hancock. Gus. Ian William Murison Smith. 15 June 1937—8 November 2016. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society. London. 2018. 0080-4606. 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0033. free.