The Joseph Black Prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to any area of analytical chemistry made by an early career scientist.

• The winner receives £3000, a medal and a certificate  
• The winner will complete a UK lecture tour 
• The winner will be selected by the RSC Analytical Science Prize Committee
  
  
• Only RSC Members can nominate for this prize
• Nominees may NOT nominate themselves
• The prize is open to nominees working in the UK and Ireland only 
• 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. 
• Nominators will be asked to provide details of the nominee's professional experience, in relation to the above criteria.   
• Career breaks will be taken into consideration, and applications are particularly encouraged from those whose career has spanned a break due to caring responsibilities or personal circumstances e.g. a period of parental/adoption leave, family commitments, illness, or other exceptional circumstances. 
• When nominating previous RSC prize winners, please remember that a person cannot be awarded twice for substantially the same body of work