The list of awards, medals and prizes given by The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc. They are grouped here according to the bodies that assess and award them:

• The RACI National Office, and
• The RACI Branches and Divisions.

Procedures and requirements differ for each award; details are available from the pages below or from the relevant body.

The list of National Past Award Winners is available.

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National Awards

Awards administered through The RACI National Office:

• Applied Research Award
• Biota Award for Medicinal Chemistry
• Centenary of Federation Teaching Awards in Chemistry
• Citations
• Cornforth Medal
• C.S. Piper Prize
• Distinguished Contribution to Economic Advancement
• Distinguished Fellowship
• Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
• H.G Smith Memorial Award
• Jim O'Donnell International Travel Awards
• Leighton Memorial Medal
• Masson Memorial Scholarship Prize
• Organometallic Award
• Rennie Memorial Medal

Procedures

Nominations and letters of recommendations for National Awards must be submitted to the National Office no later than 5pm Eastern Standard Time on April 30^th.

For additional procedure details and key dates, please refer to the awards announcement [106 kb, PDF], and to the individual awards page above for the specific requirements of each award.

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Branch and Division Awards

Awards administered by Branches and Divisions:

• NSW Branch
  • Ollé Prize

• Biomolecular Chemistry
  • Adrien Albert Award
  • Bionomics Best Thesis Award
  • Alchemia Industry Award

• Cereal Chemistry
  • F.B. Guthrie Medal
  • Founders Award

• Electrochemistry
  • Bloom-Githmann Medal
  • The Bruno Breyer Medal
  • The R.H. Stokes Medal

• Environment
  • RACI Environmental Division Medal

• Industrial Chemistry
  • RK Murphy Medal
  • Student Bursaries

• Inorganic Chemistry
  • Alan Sargeson Lectureship
  • Burrows Award
  • Stranks Award

• Organic Chemistry
  • A. J. Birch Medal
  • Organic Lectureship

• Polymer
  • Battard-Jordon Medal
  • CRC Prize
  • O'Donnell Prize
  • Polymer Citations
  • Treloar Prize

• Physical Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry Division Medal

The requirements and timetables of these awards vary; please refer to the page or contact the relevant branch or division for more information.

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