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Professor Quentin A Pankhurst is awarded the Mullard Award 2026 for leadership in establishing Healthcare Biomagnetics which has resulted in profound impact in the UK and internationally; and established the UK as a global centre for biomagnetic medical technologies. #RSMedals bit.ly/45OB2uX

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The Hughes Medal 2026 is awarded to Professor Iain McCulloch FRS for innovative advancements in the field of energy through the discovery of new organic semiconducting materials and formulations for photovoltaics and solar fuels. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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The Sylvester Medal 2026 is awarded to Professor Wendelin Werner FRS for playing an instrumental role in the development of the Schramm-Loewner evolution, a random curve which describes the scaling limit of many models from statistical mechanics in two dimensions. #RSmedals bit.ly/4cImoJq

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Professor Laura Herz FRS is awarded the Rumford Medal 2026 for her research on the physics of light interaction and energy conversion in semiconductors, including metal-halide perovskites, nanomaterials and molecules, with implications for solar cell development. #RSMedals bit.ly/4gDZQL8

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The Gabor Medal 2026 is awarded to Professor Sarah Amalia Teichmann FMedSci FRS for fundamental contributions to deciphering the molecular and cellular basis of living systems by combining biophysics, genomics and data science. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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Professor Douglas W Stephan FRS is awarded the Davy Medal 2026 for his discovery and elaboration of 'frustrated Lewis pairs' that revolutionized catalysis, introduced new avenues to main group reactivity and became a paradigm for new reactivity across the periodic table. bit.ly/46wylhG

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The Royal Society Hauksbee Award 2026 is awarded to Stuart Naismith for his entrepreneurial approach to science education, despite having no science background, dedicating his time to developing his delivery of science throughout his school. #RSMedals bit.ly/4xYXihI

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The Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers' Company Prize 2026 is awarded to Professor Charlotte K Williams OBE FRS for her innovative materials science for sustainable oxygenated polymers as plastics, thermoplastic elastomers, ionomers and polyelectrolyte binders. #RSMedals bit.ly/4xjq1hc

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The Royal Society Athena Prize 2026 is awarded to NUSTEM, Northumbria University, for their work promoting equity in STEM and strengthening the (research) evidence base around effective STEM Education and Engagement. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2026 is awarded to Dr Audrey Cameron OBE for groundbreaking contributions to science education and accessibility for the Deaf community. She has significantly advanced the use of British Sign Language (BSL) in STEM education. #RSMedals bit.ly/45UULcj

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The Darwin Medal 2026 is awarded to Professor Michael J Benton OBE FRS for his contribution to many aspects of palaeontological science, as well as authoring the standard textbooks in the field, popular science and children’s books. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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Dr Ketan J Patel FMedSci FRS is awarded the Buchanan Medal 2026 for the discovery that two simple aldehydes are major sources of endogenous DNA damage, and that a fundamental two-tier protection system prevents these metabolites from disrupting essential processes. #RSMedals bit.ly/45VGADU

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The Ferrier Medal and Lecture 2027 is awarded to Professor Kenneth Daniel Harris for his contributions to neuroscience by unifying experimental neurophysiology with advanced analytical methods and for pioneering methods that allow recording from thousands of neurons. #RSMedals bit.ly/4qCJZRo

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Dr Patricia Rodríguez Maciá is awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2026 for developing new artificial metalloenzymes, and her proposed outreach and mentorship programme that engages secondary school girls from underrepresented communities. #RSMedals bit.ly/4ghIRiM

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Professor Gregory Radick is awarded the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2026 for his exemplary work as a historian and philosopher of science, and his contributions to our understanding of genetics and evolutionary theory. #RSMedals bit.ly/4xqum2n

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The David Attenborough Award and Lecture 2026 is awarded to Dame Dr Maggie Aderin for her commitment to widening participation, reshaping public understanding of space science and scientific discovery, and innovative outreach that has impacted millions. #RSMedals bit.ly/4gv5dvX

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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS is awarded the Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture 2026 for her research in vertebrate evolution and her public engagement work, particularly her advocacy for women and people from minoritised communities. royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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The Royal Society Environment Medal 2026 is awarded to Professor Paul Bates CBE FRS for developing improved flood modelling approaches that are widely used in flood-risk management internationally. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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The Milner Award and Lecture 2027 is awarded to Professor Monika Henzinger for pioneering research in areas including efficient algorithms, differential privacy, web information retrieval, and systems profiling. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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The Royal Society Africa Prize 2026 is awarded to Professor Clive Maurice Gray for pioneering research into the immunological impacts of HIV on maternal and child health, particularly the mechanisms affecting HIV-exposed uninfected children. royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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The Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2027 is awarded to Dr Thi Hoang Duong (Kelly) Nguyen for her ground-breaking discoveries into the molecular mechanisms of telomere maintenance. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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Professor Fiona Wood AO is awarded the Royal Medal (Applied) 2026 for her pioneering work resulting in the invention of spray-on-skin, an innovation that has transformed the lives of burns patients globally. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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Professor Lewis E Kay FRS is awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2026 for his remarkable contribution to understand and quantify protein dynamics and their relevance to protein function. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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Professor John Pyle CBE FRS is awarded the Royal Medal (Physical) 2026 for his foundational contributions to the understanding of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone via major advances in the numerical modelling of the atmosphere. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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Professor Dame Janet M Thornton DBE FMedSci FRS is awarded the Croonian Medal and Lecture 2027 for her pioneering work in protein structural and functional bioinformatics. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…

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