Beilby Medal and Prize Grant

Beilby Medal and Prize Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)
Amount: £1,000
Last Updated: December 05, 2025

Summary

The Beilby Medal and Prize recognizes outstanding contributions in chemical engineering and applied materials science. Awarded annually, it honors early career scientists with less than 10 years of experience. The prize, administered by the Society of Chemical Industry and other institutions, promotes innovation and practical significance in relevant fields. Both members and non-members can nominate candidates, who may self-nominate, while ensuring that nominees have not previously been awarded for similar work.

Overview

The Beilby Medal and Prize are awarded annually to a scientist or engineer to recognise substantial work of exceptional practical significance in chemical engineering, applied materials science, energy efficiency, or a related field. This award is sustained by a Trust Fund commemorating Sir George Beilby FRS (1850-1924) who was President of SCI (1898-99), the Institute of Chemistry (1902-12) and the Institute of Metals (1916-18) and founding Chairman of the Fuel Research Board. It is administered in rotation by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), the Royal Society of Chemistry, and SCI.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Both RSC members and non-members can nominate for this prize.Nominees are permitted to nominate themselves.Nominees can only be considered for one of our Research & Innovation Prizes in any given year. In a case where a nominee is nominated for more than one prize independently, RSC staff will ask the nominee which prize they would like to be considered for.The award is open to nominees based in the UK or internationally.Nominees should be an early career scientist, typically with no more than 10 years of full-time equivalent professional experience.This should be experience gained as part of a scientific career excluding time spent in full-time education. Time spent as a postgraduate student should not be included e.g. Masters, PhD. Time spent as a post-doctoral researcher should be included.When nominating previous RSC Prize winners, please remember that a person cannot be awarded twice for substantially the same body of work.Nominees should only be nominated once for this prize in any given prize cycle. In cases where we receive more than one nomination for the same nominee, only one nomination will go forward to judging.

Ineligibility

Individuals named in any of the following roles during the nomination and judging period are not eligible to nominate or be nominated:Materials Chemistry Prize Committee membersRSC Subject Community PresidentsRSC Prize Committee membersTrustees of the Royal Society of Chemistry