The Royal Society of Chemistry awards the designation of Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for distinguished service in the field of chemistry.
Awardees are entitled to use the post nominal HonFRSC.
Recipients
Recipients have included:
1952
HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM GBE HonFRSC
1980
Professor Elias J Corey HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor Manfred Eigen HonFRSC HonFRSE ForMemRS
Professor Albert Eschenmoser HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor Rolf Huisgen HonFRSC
Professor Dr Heinrich Noth HonFRSC
1983
Professor Gilbert Stork HonFRSC ForMemRS
1985
Professor Duilio G Arigoni HonFRSC ForMemRS
Dr Reuben S Leach HonFRSC
Professor Riley Schaeffer HonFRSC
Sir Peter Walters HonFRSC
1986
Princess Chulabhorn CChem HonFRSC
1987
Professor Jack Halpern HonFRSC FRS
Professor Dudley R Herschbach HonFRSC
Professor Jean-Marie Lehn HonFRSC ForMemRS
Sir Robert Malpas CBE HonFRSC
1989
Professor Chintamani N R Rao CChem HonFRSC FRS
1990
Dr Alfred R. Bader HonFRSC
Dr Wolfgang Fritsche CChem HonFRSC
Professor Corwin H Hansch HonFRSC (1918–2011) Professor Rudolf A Marcus HonFRSC Professor Federico Mayor Zaragoza HonFRSC Professor Oleg M Nefedov HonFRSC Professor John C Polanyi HonFRSC FRS
1993
Miss Helen P Sharman OBE CChem HonFRSC
1994
Dr Mary L Good CChem HonFRSC
1995
Professor Roald Hoffmann HonFRSC ForMemRS
1996
Professor Ronald C D Breslow HonFRSC FRS
Professor Walter Kaminsky HonFRSC
1997
Professor Karl B Sharpless HonFRSC
1998
Professor Sir John Ivan George Cadogan CBE CChem HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Sir Aaron Klug OM PRS HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS
Professor George A Olah HonFRSC FRS
Sir Richard Brook Sykes HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir John Walker HonFRSC FRS
2000
Professor Jack David Dunitz HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir Harry Kroto CChem HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS
Professor Ryoji Noyori HonFRSC ForMemRS
2001
The Lord Browne of Madingley HonFRSC FRS
Professor Richard N Zare HonFRSC ForMemRS
2002
Professor Henri B Kagan HonFRSC
Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop HonFRSC FRSE FRS
Professor Sir John Edward Sulston HonFRSC FRS
Professor Kurt Wuthrich HonFRSC HonFRSE ForMemRS
Professor Ahmed Hassan Zewail HonFRSC ForMemRS
Also in 2002, the fictional character Sherlock Holmes was awarded an "Extraordinary Honorary Fellowship".
2003
Professor Sir Richard Friend HonFRSC FRS
Professor Sir Peter Mansfield HonFRSC FRS
2004
Dr Peter Agre HonFRSC
Professor Aaron Ciechanover HonFRSC
Professor Harry Barkus Gray HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor Avram Hershko HonFRSC
Professor Roderick MacKinnon HonFRSC
Professor Irwin Rose HonFRSC (1926–2015)
2005
Mr Heston Blumenthal OBE HonFRSC
Dr Yves Chauvin HonFRSC
Professor Robert H Grubbs HonFRSC
Professor Satoshi Omura HonFRSC
Professor Richard Royce Schrock HonFRSC ForMemRS
Professor George M Whitesides HonFRSC
2006
Dr Adam Hart-Davis HonFRSC
Professor Roger D Kornberg HonFRSC FRS
Professor Goverdhan Mehta CChem HonFRSC FRS
Professor Teruaki Mukaiyama HonFRSC
Professor Herbert Roesky HonFRSC
The Lord Sainsbury of Turville HonFRSC FRS
2007
Professor Chunli Bai HonFRSC
Professor Carl Djerassi HonFRSC ForMemRS (1923–2015) Professor Gerhard Ertl HonFRSC HonFRSE Professor Dieter Fenske HonFRSC Mr Jim Ratcliffe HonFRSC