Source: (1968–2002) 
*2022 Cecília Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
*2019 Mathias Uhlen
*2018 Albert J.R. Heck
*2017 Carol V. Robinson
*2016 Kári Stefánsson
*2015 Jürgen Knoblich
*2014 Michael N. Hall
*2013 Richard J. Roberts
*2012 V. Ramakrishnan 
*2011 Elena Conti
*2010 Harald Stenmark
*2009 Václav Hořejší
*2008 Tim Hunt
*2007 Tom Rapoport
*2006 Aaron Ciechanover
*2005 Thomas Jenuwein
*2004 Ryszard Gryglewski
*2003 No award?
*2002 Jacques Pouysségur
*2001 Sir Philip Cohen
*2000 Thomas Steitz
*1999 Stanley B. Prusiner
*1998 Bengt I. Samuelsson 
*1997 David Baltimore
*1996 Josef Stefaan Schell
*1995 Kim Nasmyth
*1994 Jean-Pierre Changeux
*1993 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 
*1992 Robert Huber 
*1991 No Award
*1990 Pierre Chambon
*1989 Helmut Beinert
*1988 No award
*1987 Tom Blundell
*1986 Gottfried Schatz
*1985 Robert Joseph Paton Williams 
*1984 Richard Henderson
*1983 Arthur Kornberg
*1982 François Jacob
*1981 Cesar Milstein 
*1980 Sydney Brenner (No lecture due to illness)
*1979 Pierre Desnuelle
*1978 Peter D. Mitchell
*1977 Francis Crick
*1976 No award
*1975 Heinz-Gunter Wittmann 
*1974 Charles Weissmann 
*1973 Arthur B. Pardee
*1972 Ephraim Katchalski
*1971 David Chilton Phillips
*1970 No Award
*1969 Alexander Spirin
*1968 Max Perutz (inaugural award)