2023 - Kevan Shokat, University of California, San Francisco

2022 - Geoffrey W. Coates, Cornell University

2019 - Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Yale University

2018 - John F. Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley

2017 - Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University

2016 - Robert J. Cava, Princeton University

2015 - George Schatz, Northwestern University

2014 - Peter Schultz, The Scripps Research Institute

2013 - Roger Y. Tsien, University of California, San Diego

2012 - Steven M. Block, Stanford University

2011 - Paul A. Wender, Stanford University

2010 - Robert Crabtree, Yale University

2009 - A. Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley

2008 - Larry E. Overman, University of California, Irvine

2007 - Richard A. Lerner, The Scripps Research Institute

2006 - J. Peter Toennies, Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization

2005 - Josef Michl, University of Colorado, Boulder

2004 - Stephen J. Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2003 - Rudolf Marcus, California Institute of Technology

2002 - Shiro Kobayashi, Kyoto University

2001 - Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology

2000 - Ian W. M. Smith, University of Birmingham, UK

1999 - K. C. Nicolau, The Scripps Research Institute

1998 - James Dye, Michigan State University

1997 - Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado, Boulder

1996 - Malcolm Green, University of Oxford, UK

1995 - Gerhard Ertl, Free University of Berlin, Germany

1994 - George Whitesides, Harvard University

1993 - Fred Wudl, University of California, Santa Barbara

1992 - Barry Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute

1991 - Carl Djerassi, Stanford University

1990 - Robert Williams

1989 - Jeremy Knowles, Harvard University

1988 - Frank Westheimer, Harvard University

1987 - Paul Lauterbur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1986 - Henry Taube, Stanford University

1985 - Alexander Rich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1984 - Bruce Ames, University of California, Berkeley

1983 - Richard Holm, Harvard University

1982 - Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University

1981 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, Imperial College London, UK

1980 - William Lipscomb, Harvard University

1980 - Jean-Marie Lehn, Collège de France, France

1979 - Joseph Chatt, University of Sussex, UK

1978 - F. Albert Cotton, Texas A&M University

1977 - Vladimir Prelog, ETH Zürich

1977 - Philip W. Anderson, Bell Laboratories

1976 - Francis Crick, Cambridge University, UK

1976 - Arthur Kornberg, Stanford University