| Year |
Recipient |
| 1972 |
Karl August Folkers, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 1974 |
Albert Eschenmoser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 1976 |
Neil Bartlett, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1978 |
Edgar Bright Wilson, Harvard University |
| 1980 |
Sune Bergström, Karolinska Institute |
| 1981 |
Paul Doughty Bartlett, Texas Christian University |
| 1982 |
Frank Westheimer, Harvard University |
| 1983 |
Henry Taube, Stanford University |
| 1984 |
Kenneth Pitzer, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1985 |
Duilio Arigoni, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 1986 |
George C. Pimentel, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1987 |
Harry George Drickamer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1988 |
Richard Barry Bernstein, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1989 |
Norman R. Davidson, California Institute of Technology |
| 1990 |
John D. Roberts, California Institute of Technology |
| 1990 |
William von Eggers Doering, Harvard University |
| 1991 |
Earl R. Stadtman, National Institutes of Health |
| 1991 |
Edwin G. Krebs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington |
| 1992 |
Richard Smalley, Rice University |
| 1993 |
Gilbert Stork, Columbia University |
| 1994 |
Jack Halpern, The University of Chicago |
| 1994 |
F. Albert Cotton, Texas A&M University |
| 1995 |
Jeremy R. Knowles, Harvard University |
| 1995 |
Robert H. Abeles, Brandeis University |
| 1996 |
Koji Nakanishi, Columbia University |
| 1997 |
Ahmed Zewail, California Institute of Technology |
| 1998 |
Pierre Chambon, College de France |
| 1999 |
Richard Zare, Stanford University |
| 2000 |
A. Ian Scott, Texas A&M University |
| 2000 |
Sir Alan R. Battersby, Cambridge University |
| 2001 |
Roger D. Kornberg, Stanford University |
| 2002 |
Harden M. McConnell, Stanford University |
| 2003 |
Ronald Breslow, Columbia University |
| 2004 |
Allen J. Bard, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 2005 |
George M. Whitesides, Harvard University |
| 2006 |
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., University of California, Berkeley |
| 2007 |
William H. Miller, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2007 |
Noel S. Hush, University of Sydney |
| 2008 |
Alexander Rich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2009 |
Harry B. Gray, California Institute of Technology |
| 2010 |
JoAnne Stubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard Medical School |
| 2011 |
John S. Waugh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2012 |
David A. Evans, Harvard University |
| 2013 |
Louis E. Brus, Columbia University |
| 2014 |
Robert G. Bergman, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2015 |
Stephen C. Harrison, Harvard Medical School |
| 2016 |
Richard H. Holm, Harvard University;
Stephen J. Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2017 |
John B. Goodenough, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2018 |
Adriaan Bax, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases |
| 2019 |
Armand Paul Alivisatos, University of California Berkeley;
Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University |
| 2020 |
Steven L. McKnight, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2021 |
Chi-Huey Wong, The Scripps Research Institute |
| 2022 |
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University |
| 2023 |
Jacqueline Barton, California Institute of Technology |
| 2024 |
Eric N. Jacobsen, Harvard University |
| 2025 |
Stuart L. Schreiber, Harvard University;
Peter G. Schultz, Scripps Research |
