Vietnamese professor Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh (Photo:  University College London)

Thanh, currently working at the University College London (UCL), won the prize for her important contributions to research related to Plasmonic nanoparticles and their magnetism for biomedical applications.
The Interdisciplinary Prizes are awarded for work at the interface between chemistry and other disciplines. The spirit of the prize is to recognize research involving both the broad and evolving subject of chemistry and another discipline.