| Name | Year |
| Rong Li | 2026 |
| Mary Munson | 2025 |
| Sandra Murray | 2024 |
| Erika Holzbaur | 2023 |
| Martin Chalfie | 2022 |
| Ruth Lehmann | 2021 |
| Eva Nogales | 2020 |
| Andrew Murray | 2019 |
| Jodi Nunnari | 2018 |
| Pietro De Camilli | 2017 |
| Peter Walter | 2016 |
| Shirley Tilghman | 2015 |
| Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz | 2014 |
| Donald Cleveland | 2013 |
| Ron Vale | 2012 |
| Sandra Schmid | 2011 |
| Timothy Mitchison | 2010 |
| Brigid Hogan | 2009 |
| Robert Goldman | 2008 |
| Bruce Alberts | 2007 |
| Mary Beckerle | 2006 |
| Zena Werb* | 2005 |
| Harvey Lodish | 2004 |
| Suzanne Pfeffer | 2003 |
| Gary Borisy | 2002 |
| Elaine Fuchs | 2001 |
| Richard Hynes* | 2000 |
| Randy Schekman | 1999 |
| Elizabeth Blackburn | 1998 |
| Mina Bissell | 1997 |
| J. Michael Bishop | 1996 |
| Ursula Goodenough | 1995 |
| Name | Year |
| J. Richard McIntosh | 1994 |
| Susan Gerbi | 1993 |
| Donald Brown* | 1992 |
| Mark Kirschner | 1991 |
| Gunter Blobel* | 1990 |
| James Spudich | 1989 |
| Thomas Pollard | 1988 |
| Frank Ruddle* | 1987 |
| Mary-Lou Pardue* | 1986 |
| Daniel Branton | 1985 |
| Morris Karnovsky* | 1984 |
| James Jamieson* | 1983 |
| Marilyn Farquhar* | 1982 |
| Helen A. Padykula* | 1981 |
| Bill R. Brinkley* | 1980 |
| David Sabatini | 1979 |
| Keith Porter* | 1978 |
| Elizabeth Hay* | 1977 |
| George Palade* | 1976 |
| George Pappas* | 1975 |
| T.C. Hsu* | 1974 |
| Jean-Paul Revel* | 1973 |
| Daniel Mazia* | 1972 |
| Saul Kit* | 1971 |
| J. Herbert Taylor* | 1970 |
| Montrose Moses* | 1969 |
| Joseph Gall* | 1968 |
| Philip Siekevitz* | 1967 |
| David M. Prescott* | 1966 |
| Van Potter* | 1965 |
| Hewson Swift* | 1964 |
| Alex B. Novikoff* | 1963 |
| Don Fawcett* | 1962 |