Mário Berberan-Santos is the recipient of the Ferreira da Silva Prize 2020. The prize is awarded biannually by the Portuguese Chemical Society to a chemist that gave a very important contribution to the advance of chemistry in Portugal. This prize, awarded since 1982, is the most import in the field of chemistry in Portugal. Ferreira da Silva (1853-1923), an outstanding portuguese chemist and university professor, was also the first president of the Portuguese Chemical Society.