*1972 Paul W. Gast
*1973 Robert M. Garrels
*1974 Hans E. Suess
*1975 Harold C. Urey
*1976 Hans P. Eugster
*1977 Samuel Epstein
*1978 Gerald J. Wasserburg
*1979 Harmon Craig
*1980 Clair C. Patterson
*1981 Robert N. Clayton
*1982 Konrad B. Krauskopf
*1983 Samuel S. Goldich
*1984 Alfred Nier
*1985 James B. Thompson Jr.
*1986 Claude Allègre
*1987 Wallace S. Broecker
*1988 Harold C. Helgeson
*1989 Karl K. Turekian
*1990 Edward Anders
*1991 Alfred Edward Ringwood
*1992 Stanley R. Hart
*1993 S. Ross Taylor
*1994 Heinrich D. Holland
*1995 Robert A. Berner
*1996 Albrecht W. Hofmann
*1997 Devendra Lal
*1998 Werner Stumm
*2000 Geoffrey Eglinton
*2001 Ikuo Kushiro
*2002 John M. Hayes
*2003 Bernard J. Wood
*2004 James R. O'Neil
*2005 E. Bruce Watson
*2006 Susan Solomon
*2007 Guenter Lugmair
*2008 Francis Albarède
*2009 Mark H. Thiemens
*2010 Minoru Ozima
*2011 Frank Millero
*2012 Edward M. Stolper
*2013 Henry "Harry" Elderfield
*2014 Timothy Grove
*2015 Miriam Kastner
*2016 Alexandra Navrotsky
*2017 Jill Banfield
*2018 Michael A. Arthur
*2019 Donald DePaolo
*2020 Richard Carlson
*2021 Bernard Marty