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 have included:^[1]

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".^[2]

2003

• Professor Sir Richard Friend HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Sir Peter Mansfield HonFRSC FRS^{[citation needed]}

2004

• Dr Peter Agre HonFRSC
• Professor Aaron J 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

2008

• Professor Martin Chalfie HonFRSC
• Professor Roger Yonchien Tsien HonFRSC ForMemRS

2009

• Professor Christian André Amatore HonFRSC
• Professor Allen Joseph Bard HonFRSC
• Dr Brian Iddon CChem HonFRSC
• Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Thomas Arthur Steitz HonFRSC
• Professor Ada E Yonath HonFRSC

2010

• Mr Bill Bryson OBE HonFRSC
• Professor Andre Geim HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Ei-ichi Negishi HonFRSC
• Professor Konstantin Novoselov HonFRSC
• Professor Sir Paul Nurse HonFRSC FRSE FRS
• Professor Akira Suzuki HonFRSC

2011

• Dr Quentin Cooper HonFRSC
• Dr Yusuf Khwaja Hamied HonFRSC
• Dr Yuan Tseh Lee HonFRSC
• Professor Dan Shechtman HonFRSC
• Sir J Fraser Stoddart CChem HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS
• Dr Joan Selverstone Valentine HonFRSC

2012

• Professor Brian Kobilka HonFRSC
• Professor Robert J Lefkowitz HonFRSC
• Sir Gregory P Winter CBE HonFRSC FRS

2013

• The Lord Ballyedmond OBE, HonFRSC, FRCVS (1944–2014)
• Professor Michael Grätzel HonFRSC
• Professor Anne Glover CBE HonFRSC
• Professor Dame Julia S Higgins DBE HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Andrew B Holmes HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Martin Karplus HonFRSC
• Professor Michael Levitt HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Arieh Warshel HonFRSC
• Mr Keith Wiggins HonFRSC

2014

• Professor Jacqueline Barton HonFRSC
• Dr Eric Betzig HonFRSC
• Professor Dr Stefan Hell HonFRSC
• Professor William Moerner HonFRSC
• Professor Bengt Norden HonFRSC
• Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Dame Julia Slingo HonFRSC
• Professor Gabor Somorjai HonFRSC

2015

• Professor Andrew D Hamilton HonFRSC FRS
• Dr Tomas R Lindahl HonFRSC
• Dr Paul L Modrich HonFRSC
• Professor Dame Carol V Robinson DBE HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Lesley J Yellowlees CBE HonFRSC FRSE

2016

• Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage HonFRSC
• Professor Dr Bernard L Feringa CChem HonFRSC
• Professor Dr Xinhe Bao HonFRSC
• Professor Christina Moberg HonFRSC
• Professor Dame Janet Thornton DBE HonFRSC FRS

2017

• Professor Jacques Dubochet HonFRSC
• Dr Joachim Frank HonFRSC
• Professor Richard Henderson HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Thisbe Lindhorst HonFRSC
• Professor Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian HonFRSC
• Professor W Graham Richards CBE HonFRSC
• The Lord Willetts HonFRSC
• Ms Emma Walmsley HonFRSC

2018

• Professor Juliet Gerrard HonFRSC FRSNZ
• Dr Maki Kawai HonFRSC
• Dr Fiona Marshall HonFRSC
• Professor Roger Sheldon HonFRSC FRS

2019

• Professor Frances Arnold HonFRSC
• Professor Dr Natalia Tarasova HonFRSC
• Dr Anthony Wood HonFRSC
• Professor John B. Goodenough CChem HonFRSC ForMemRS

See also

• List of Royal Society of Chemistry medals and awards

References