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]

2013

• 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

2012

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

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

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

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

2008

• Professor Martin Chalfie HonFRSC
• Professor Roger Yonchien Tsien HonFRSC ForMemRS
• The Lord Ballyedmond OBE, HonFRSC, FRCVS (1944–2014)

2007

• Professor Chunli Bai HonFRSC
• Professor Gerhard Ertl HonFRSC HonFRSE
• Professor Dieter Fenske HonFRSC
• Mr Jim Ratcliffe 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
• Lord Sainsbury of Turville HonFRSC FRS

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

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

2003

• Professor Sir Richard Friend HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Sir Peter Mansfield HonFRSC FRS

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]

2001

• Lord Browne of Madingley HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Richard N Zare HonFRSC ForMemRS

2000

• Professor Jack David Dunitz HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Sir Harry Kroto CChem HonFRSC HonFRSE FRS
• Professor Ryoji Noyori HonFRSC ForMemRS

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

1997

• Professor Karl B Sharpless HonFRSC

1996

• Professor Ronald C D Breslow HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Walter Kaminsky HonFRSC

1995

• Professor Roald Hoffmann HonFRSC ForMemRS

1994

• Dr Mary L Good CChem HonFRSC

1993

• Miss Helen P Sharman OBE CChem HonFRSC

1990

• Dr Alfred R Bader HonFRSC
• Dr Wolfgang Fritsche CChem HonFRSC
• Professor Corwin H Hansch HonFRSC
• Professor Rudolf A Marcus HonFRSC
• Professor Federico Mayor Zaragoza HonFRSC
• Professor Oleg M Nefedov HonFRSC
• Professor John C Polanyi HonFRSC FRS

1989

• Professor Chintamani N R Rao CChem HonFRSC FRS

1987

• Professor David Parker Craig CChem HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Jack Halpern HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Dudley R Herschbach HonFRSC
• Professor Jean-Marie Lehn HonFRSC ForMemRS
• Sir Robert Malpas CBE HonFRSC

1986

• HRH Princess Chulabhorn CChem HonFRSC

1985

• Professor Duilio G Arigoni HonFRSC ForMemRS
• Professor Carl Djerassi HonFRSC ForMemRS
• Dr Reuben S Leach HonFRSC
• Professor Riley Schaeffer HonFRSC
• Sir Peter Walters HonFRSC

1983

• Professor Gilbert Stork HonFRSC ForMemRS

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

1952

• HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM GBE HonFRSC

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