2007 Joseph S. Francisco William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry
2006 Supriyo Datta Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2005 David D. Nolte Department of Physics
2004 Stanton B. Gelvin Department of Biological Sciences
2003 Philip L. Fuchs Department of Chemistry
2002 Roberto Colella and Alexandre Eremenko Physics & Mathematics
2001 Janet L. Smith Biological Sciences
2000 Nicholas A. Peppas Chemical Engr., Biomedical Engr.
1999 Ray A. Bressan Horticulture
1998 Ei-ichi Negishi Chemistry
1997 Gregory B. Martin Agronomy
1996 Ben S. Freiser Chemistry
1996 Timothy S. Baker Biological Sciences
1995 John H. Cushman Agronomy and Mathematics
1994 Anant K. Ramdas and Sergio Rodriguez Physics
1993 Philip S. Low Chemistry
1992 Nicholas J. Giordano Physics
1991 William J. Ray, Jr. Biological Sciences
1990 R. Graham Cooks Chemistry
1989 Thomas K. Hodges Botany and Plant Pathology
1988 William A. Cramer Biological Sciences
1987 Austen Angell Chemistry
1986 Stanley A. Barber Agronomy
1985 Louis de Branges Mathematics
1985 Rolf P. Scharenberg Physics
1984 Laszlo J. Gutay Physics
1983 Dale W. Margerum Chemistry
1982 William L. Pak Biological Sciences
1981 Heinz G. Floss Medicinal Chemistry
1980 Philip F. Low Agronomy
1979 Leonard E. Mortenson Biological Sciences
1978 Albert W. Overhauser Physics
1977 R. Stuart Tobias Chemistry
1976 King Sun Fu Electrical Engineering
1975 Michael Laskowski, Jr. Chemistry
1974 Michael G. Rossmann Biological Sciences
1973 Shreeram S. Abhankar Mathematics
1972 Hubert M. James Physics
1972 Robert A. Benkeser Chemistry
1971 John B. Bancroft Botany and Plant Pathology
1970 H. Edwin Umbarger Biological Sciences
1969 Hsu Y. Fan Physics
1968 Harry Beevers Biological Sciences
1967 Edwin T. Mertz Biochemistry
1967 Oliver E. Nelson Botany and Plant Pathology
1966 Herbert C. Brown Chemistry
1965 Seymour Benzer Biophysics