Source: 
*1946 – David E. Green
*1947 – Van R. Potter
*1948 – Albert L. Lehninger
*1949 – Henry A. Lardy
*1950 – Britton Chance
*1951 – Arthur Kornberg
*1952 – Bernard L. Horecker
*1953 – Earl R. Stadtman
*1954 – Alton Meister
*1955 – Paul D. Boyer
*1956 – Merton F. Utter
*1957 – G. Robert Greenberg
*1958 – Eugene P. Kennedy
*1959 – Minor J. Coon
*1960 – Arthur Pardee
*1961 – Frank M. Huennekens
*1962 – Jack L. Strominger
*1963 – Charles Gilvarg
*1964 – Marshall Nirenberg
*1965 – Frederic M. Richards
*1966 – Samuel B. Weiss
*1967 – P. Roy Vagelos & Salih J. Wakil
*1968 – William J. Rutter
*1969 – Robert T. Schimke
*1970 – Herbert Weissbach
*1971 – Jack Preiss
*1972 – Ekkehard K. F. Bautz
*1973 – Howard M. Temin
*1974 – Michael J. Chamberlin
*1975 – Malcolm L. Gefter
*1976 – Michael S. Brown & Joseph L. Goldstein
*1977 – Stephen J. Benkovic
*1978 – Paul Schimmel
*1979 – Frederik C. Hartman
*1980 – Thomas A. Steitz
*1981 – Daniel V. Santi
*1982 – Richard R. Burgess
*1983 – Paul L. Modrich
*1984 – Robert T.N. Tjian
*1985 – Thomas R. Cech
*1986 – JoAnne Stubbe
*1987 – Gregory Petsko
*1988 – John W. Kozarich
*1989 – Kenneth A. Johnson
*1990 – James A. Wells
*1991 – Ronald Vale
*1992 – Carl O. Pabo
*1993 – Michael H. Gelb
*1994 – Donald Hilvert
*1995 – Gerald F. Joyce
*1996 – P. Andrew Karplus
*1997 – Daniel Herschlag
*1998 – Ronald T. Raines
*1999 – David W. Christianson
*2000 – Eric T. Kool
*2001 – Ruma Banerjee
*2002 – Karin Musier-Forsyth
*2003 – Dorothee Kern
*2004 – Wilfred A. van der Donk
*2005 – Nicole S. Sampson
*2006 – James Berger
*2007 – Neil L. Kelleher
*2008 – Carsten Krebs
*2009 – Virginia Cornish
*2010 – Vahe Bandarian
*2011 – Sarah O’Connor
*2012 – Jin Zhang
*2013 – Kate Carroll
*2014 – Hening Lin
*2015 – Douglas Mitchell
*2016 – Michelle C. Chang
*2017 – Emily Balskus
*2018 – Mohammad Seyedsayamdost
*2019 – Kenichi Yokoyama
*2020 – Rahul Kohli
*2021 – Amie K. Boal