• 1977: Harry G. Drickamer (1918 - 2002)
• 1979: Boris Vodar (1910 - 1982)
• 1981: E. Ulrich Franck (1920 - 2004)
• 1983: Francis Birch (1903 - 1992)
• 1985: Nestor J. Trappeniers (1922 - 2004)
• 1987: Francis P. Bundy (1920 - 2008)
• 1989: Ho-Kwang Mao
• 1991: Shigeru Minomura (1923 - 2000)
• 1993: Arthur L. Ruoff
• 1995: Bogdan Baranowski (1927 - 2014)
• 1997: William A. Bassett
• 1999: Vladimir E. Fortov (1946 - 2020)
• 2001: William J. Nellis
• 2003: Neil W. Ashcroft (1938 - 2021)
• 2005: Sergey M. Stishov
• 2007: Takehiko Yagi
• 2009: Russell J. Hemley
• 2011: Eiji Ito
• 2013: Karl Syassen (1945 - 2023)
• 2015: Paul Loubeyre
• 2017: Mikhail Eremets
• 2019: Gilbert W. Collins
• 2021: Tetsuo Irifune ( 入舩 徹男 )

(Birth - Death dates are given after names of those deceased)