2022 Longstaff Prize Winner
Professor Peter Bruce, University of Oxford
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| Year | Name | Institution | Citation |
| 2019 | Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff | University of Nottingham | Awarded for outstanding contributions to green chemistry and for participating centrally in 乐天堂app下载 creation of 乐天堂app下载 Periodic Table Videos. |
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| 2013 | Professor Steven Ley | University of Cambridge | Awarded for his outstanding record in developing innovative solutions to advance 乐天堂app下载 science of chemistry that have substantially contributed to this field on a global level. |
| 2010 | Lord Jack Lewis | University of Cambridge | Awarded for his remarkable contributions to inorganic chemistry and for his leadership on scientific issues facing 乐天堂app下载 nation, in particular through 乐天堂app下载 Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and 乐天堂app下载 Select Committee on Science and Technology of 乐天堂app下载 House of Lords. |
| 2008 | Sir Jack Baldwin | University of Oxford | Awarded for his distinguished contributions to natural product chemistry and syn乐天堂app下载tic methodology. |
| 2005 | Professor Alan Carrington | University of Southampton | Awarded for his outstanding research career covering ESR of free radicals in 乐天堂app下载 liquid phase, EPR of gas phase free radicals and more recent work on ion beam spectroscopy of simple ionic species. |
| 2002 | Professor Robert J P Williams | University of Oxford | Awarded for 乐天堂app下载 sustained excellence of his work in inorganic and bio-inorganic chemistry. |
| 1999 | Professor Ray Freeman | University of Cambridge | Awarded for his dominant international role in NMR developments over four decades and, in particular, in 乐天堂app下载 innovations of double resonance, Fourier transform methods, sophisticated pulse sequences and two-dimensional NMR, strongly impacting on all branches of chemistry. |
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