| Year | Authors | Title |
| 2019 | Brian Lovett, Etienne Bilgo, Souro Abel Millogo, Abel Kader Ouattarra, Issiaka Sare, Edounou Jacques Gnambani, Roch K. Dabire, Abdoulaye Diabate, Raymond St. Leger | |
| 2018 | Juan Yin, Yuan Cao, Yu-Huai Li, Sheng-Kai Liao, Liang Zhang, Ji-Gang Ren, Wen-Qi Cai, Wei-Yue Liu, Bo Li, Hui Dai, Guang-Bing Li, Qi-Ming Lu, Yun-Hong Gong, Yu Xu, Shuang-Lin Li, Feng-Zhi Li, Ya-Yun Yin, Zi-Qing Jiang, Ming Li, Jian-Jun Jia, Ge Ren, Dong He, Yi-Lin Zhou, Xiao-Xiang Zhang, Na Wang, Xiang Chang, Zhen-Cai Zhu, Nai-Le Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, Rong Shu, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Jian-Yu Wang, Jian-Wei Pan | |
| 2017 | James M. Eagan, Jun Xu, Rocco Di Girolamo, Christopher M. Thurber, Christopher Macosko, Anne M. LaPointe, Frank S. Bates, Geoffrey W. Coates | |
| 2016 | Robert Gütig | |
| 2015 | Bi-Chang Chen, Wesley R. Legant, Kai Wang, Lin Shao, Daniel E. Milkie, Michael W. Davidson, Chris Janetopoulos, Xufeng S. Wu, John A. Hammer III, Zhe Liu, Brian P. English, Yuko Mimori-Kiyosue, Daniel P. Romero, Alex T. Ritter, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Lillian Fritz-Laylin, R. Dyche Mullins, Diana M. Mitchell, Joshua N. Bembenek, Anne-Cecile Reymann, Ralph Böhme, Stephan W. Grill, Jennifer T. Wang, Geraldine Seydoux, U. Serdar Tulu, Daniel P. Kiehart, Eric Betzig | |
| 2014 | Lulu Xie, Hogyi Kang, Qiwu Xu, Michael J. Chen, Yonghong Liao, Meenakshisundaram Thiyagarajan, John O’Donnell, Daniel J. Christensen, Charles Nicholson, Jeffrey J. Iliff, Takahiro Takano, Rashid Deane, Maiken Nedergaard | |
| 2013 | Travis A. Jarrell, Yi Wang, Adam E. Bloniarz, Christopher A. Brittin, Meng Xu, J. Nichol Thomson, Donna G. Albertson, David H. Hall, and Scott W. Emmons | |
| 2012 | Vincent Mourik, Kun Zuo, Sergey M. Frolov, Sébastien R. Plissard, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, and Leo P. Kouwenhoven | |
| 2011 | Waseem S. Bakr, Amy Peng, M. Eric Tai, Ruichao Ma, Jonathan Simon, Jonathon Isaiah Gillen, Simon Fölling, Lode Pollet, and Markus Greiner | |
| 2010 | Richard E. Green, Johannes Krause, Adrian W. Briggs, Tomislav Maricic, Udo Stenzel, Martin Kircher, Nick Patterson, Heng Li, Weiwei Zhai, Markus Hsi-Yang Fritz, Nancy F. Hansen, Eric Y. Durand, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Jeffrey D. Jensen, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Can Alkan, Kay Prüfer, Matthias Meyer, Hernán A. Burbano, Jeffrey M. Good, Rigo Schultz, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Anne Butthof, Barbara Höber, Barbara Höffner, Madlen Siegemund, Antje Weihmann, Chad Nusbaum, Eric S. Lander, Carsten Russ, Nathaniel Novod, Jason Affourtit, Michael Egholm, Christine Verna, Pavao Rudan, Dejana Brajkovic, Željko Kucan, Ivan Gušic, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Liubov V. Golovanova, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Marco de la Rasilla, Javier Fortea, Antonio Rosas, Ralf W. Schmitz, Philip L. F. Johnson, Evan E. Eichler, Daniel Falush, Ewan Birney, James C. Mullikin, Montgomery Slatkin, Rasmus Nielsen, Janet Kelso, Michael Lachmann, David Reich, and Svante Pääbo | |
| 2009 | Paul Kalas, James R. Graham, Eugene Chiang, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Mark Clampin, Edwin S. Kite, Karl Stapelfeldt, Christian Marois, and John Krist | |
| 2009 | Christian Marois, Bruce Macintosh, Travis Barman, B. Zuckerman, Inseok Song, Jennifer Patience, David Lafrenière, and René Doyon | |
| 2008 | Anoop Kumar, James W. Godwin, Phillip B. Gates, A. Acely Garza-Garcia, and Jeremy P. Brockes | |
| 2007 | Hani M. El-Kaderi, Joseph R. Hunt, José L. Mendoza-Cortés, Adrien P. Côté, Robert E. Taylor, Michael O’Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi | |
| 2006 | Jason R. Petta, Alexander C. Johnson, Jacob M. Taylor, Edward A. Laird, Amir Yacoby, Mikhail D. Lukin, Charles M. Marcus, Micah P. Hanson, Arthur C. Gossard | |
| 2005 | Yuichiro K. Kato, Roberto C. Myers, Arthur C. Gossard, and David D. Awschalom | |
| 2004 | Brian Kuhlman, Gautam Dantas, Gregory C. Ireton, Gabriele Varani, Barry L. Stoddard and David Baker | |
| 2003 | Thomas A. Volpe, Catherine Kidner, Ira M. Hall, Grace Teng, Shiv I.S. Grewal and Robert A. Martienssen | |
| 2003 | Ira M. Hall, Gurumurthy D. Shankaranarayana, Ken-ichi Noma, Nabieh Ayoub, Amikam Cohen and Shiv I.S. Grewal | |
| 2002 | Mariana Lagos-Quintana, Reinhard Rauhut, Winfried Lendeckel, and Thomas Tuschl | |
| 2002 | Nelson C. Lau, Lee P. Lim, Earl G. Weinstein, and David P. Bartel | |
| 2002 | Rosalind C. Lee and Victor Ambros | |
| 2001 | Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Peter B. Moore, and Thomas A. Steitz | |
| 2001 | Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore, and Thomas A. Steitz | |
| 2001 | Marat M. Yusupov, Gulnara Gh. Yusupova, Albion Baucom, Kate Lieberman, Thomas N. Earnest, J.H.D. Cate, and Harry F. Noller | |
| 1999 | Mark D. Adams, Susan E. Celniker, Gerald M. Rubin and J. Craig Venter | |
| 1998 | Norman Murray and Matthew Holman | |
| 1997 | Declan A. Doyle, João Morais Cabral, Richard A. Pfuetzner, Anling Kuo, Jacqueline M. Gulbis, Steven L. Cohen, Brian T. Chait and Roderick MacKinnon | |
| 1997 | Roderick MacKinnon, Steven L. Cohen, Anling Kuo, Alice Lee and Brian T. Chait | |
| 1996 | Nicholas C. Wrighton, Francis X. Farrell, Ray Chang, Arun K. Kashyap, Francis Barbone, Linda S. Mulcahy, Dana L. Johnson, Ronald W. Barrett, Linda K. Jolliffe and William J. Dower | |
| 1996 | Oded Livnah, Enrico A. Stura, Dana L. Johnson, Steven A. Middleton, Linda S. Mulcahy, Nicholas C. Wrighton, William J. Dower, Linda K. Jolliffe and Ian A. Wilson | |
| 1996 | Yu Feng, Christopher C. Broder, Paul E. Kennedy, and Edward A. Berger | |
| 1995 | Michael H. Anderson, Jason R. Ensher, Michael R. Matthews, Carl E. Wieman, and Eric A. Cornell | |
| 1994 | Georg Halder, Patrick Callaerts and Walter J. Gehring | |
| 1993 | Jerome Faist, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, Carlo Sitori, Albert L. Hutchinson, and Alfred Y. Cho | |
| 1993 | Michael F. Crommie, Christopher P. Lutz, and Donald M. Eigler | |
| 1992 | Michael J. Mahan, James M. Slauch and John J. Mekalanos | |
| 1991 | Paul D. Quay, Bronte Tilbrook and C.S. Wong | |
| 1990 | Stephen P. A. Fodor, J. Leighton Read, Michael C. Pirrung, Lubert Stryer, Amy Tsai Lu, and Dennis Solas | |
| 1989 | Margaret J. Geller, John P. Huchra | |
| 1988 | William H. Landschulz, Peter F. Johnson and Steven L. McKnight |
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| 1987 | Margaret A. Tolbert, Michel J. Rossi, Ripudaman Malhotra, and David M. Golden | |
| 1987 | Mario Molina, Tai-Ly Tso, Luisa T. Molina, and Frank C. Y. Wang | |
| 1986 | Arthur J. Zaug, Thomas R. Cech | |
| 1986 | Jeremy Nathans, David S. Hogness, Darcy Thomas, Thomas P. Piantanida, Roger L. Eddy, and Thomas B. Shows |
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| 1985 | James M. Hogle, Marie Chow and David J. Filman | |
| 1984 | Sally M. Rigden, Thomas J. Ahrens and Edward M. Stolper | |
| 1983 | Allan C. Spradling and Gerald M. Rubin |
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| 1982 | Dennis G. Kleid, Douglas M. Moore, Howard L. Bachrach, Donald Bowbenko, Marvin J. Grubman, Peter D. McKercher, Donald O. Morgan, Betty H. Robertson, Barbara Small, and Daniel Yansura | |
| 1981 | Robert Axelrod and William D. Hamilton | |
| 1980 | F. N. Spiess, Kenneth C. MacDonald and twenty co-authors | |
| 1979 | Stanton J. Peale, Patrick M. Cassen and Ray T. Reynolds | |
| 1978 | Eric I. Knudsen, Masakazu Konishi and John D. Pettigrew |
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| 1977 | Viking Mission scientists | for research reports in Science , , and |
| Year | Recipient | Title |
| 1974 | Amos Nur | Origin of Velocity Changes before Earthquakes: The Dilatancy Diffusion Hypothesis and Its Confirmation |
| 1972 | Bruce Carlson | Morphogenetic Interactions between Skin and Underlying Tissues during Limb Regeneration |
| 1971 | Alan Gelperin | Neural Control Systems of Underlying Insect Feeding Behavior |
| 1970 | James W. Truman | The Eclosion Hormone: Its Release by the Brain and Its Action on the Central Nervous Systems of Silkmoths |
| 1969 | Cornelia P. Channing | Control of Luteinization in Granulosa Cell Cultures |
| 1968 | Joel L. Rosenbaum | Control of Protein Synthesis in Flagellar Growth |
| 1967 | Edward O. Wilson | Recent Advances in Chemical Communication |
| 1967 | Thomas Eisner | Cross-Specific Chemical Communication |
| 1966 | Michael K. Reedy | Cross Bridges and Periods in Insect Flight Muscle |
| 1965 | David S. Hogness | The Structure and Function of the DNA from Bacteriophage Lambda |
| 1964 | John Papaconstantinou | Protein and Nucleic Acid Changes in the Differentiation of Lens Cells |
| 1963 | Jonathan W. Uhr | The Heterogeneity of the Immune Response |
| 1962 | J. F. Evernden and G. H. Curtis | The Dating of Early Man and His Cultures by the Potassium-Argon Method |
| 1961 | Richard D. Alexander | The Role of Behavioral Study in Cricket Classification |
| 1960 | Halton C. Arp | The Stellar Content of Galaxies |
| 1959 | Edward Anders | Meteorites and Asteroids |
| 1958 | Jerzy Neyman and Elizabeth L. Scott | On Certain Stochastic Models of Population Dynamical Phenomena |
| 1957 | Martin Schwarzschild, J. B. Rogerson, Jr. and J. W. Evans | Solar Photographs from 80,000 Feet |
| 1956 | Neal E. Miller | Learning and Performance Motivated by Direct Stimulation of the Brain |
| 1956 | James Olds | Effects of Hunger, Sex, and Tranquilizers on Localized Reward Systems in the Brain |
| 1955 | Seymour S. Cohen | Molecular Bases of the Parasitism of Some Bacterial Viruses |
| 1954 | Daniel H. Alpert | Experiments at Very Low Pressures |
| 1953 | Barry Commoner | Studies on the Biosynthesis of Tobacco Mosaic Virus |
| 1952 | A. M. Gleason | Natural Coordinate Systems |
| 1951 | J. Laurence Kulp | Natural Radiocarbon Measurements |
| 1950 | Carroll M. Williams | for several papers on the enzymes, hormones, and development of Cecropia silkworms |
| 1949 | Armin C. Braun | Thermal Inactivation Study on the Tumor-inducing Principle in Crown Gall |
| 1947 | Harrison S. Brown | Elements in Meteorites and the Earth's Origin |
| 1946 | T. M. Sonneborn, Ruth V. Dippel and Winifred Jacobson | for several papers on the mechanism of heredity in Paramecium |
| 1946 | Quentin M. Geiman and Ralph W. McKee | Cultural Studies on the Nutrition of Malarial Parasites |
| 1941 | Dugald E. S. Brown, Douglas A. Marsland and Frank H. Johnson | for two papers on a basic mechanism in the biological effects of temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and narcosis |
| 1940 | Dennis R. Hoagland and Daniel I. Arnon | Availability of Nutrients with Special Reference to Physiological Aspects |
| 1939 | I. I. Rabi | Radio Frequency Spectra of Atoms and Molecules |
| 1938 | Norman R. F. Maier | Experimentally Produced Neurotic Behavior in the Rat |
| 1937 | Philip R. White | Root Pressure: An Unappreciated Force in Sap Movement |
| 1936 | Wendell M. Stanley | Chemical Studies of the Virus of Tobacco Mosaic |
| 1935 | P. W. Zimmerman and A. E. Hitchcock | The Initiation and Growth of Secondary Roots Induced by Growth Substances |
| 1934 | Vern O. Knudsen | The Absorption of Sound in Gases |
| 1933 | Reuben L. Kahn | Tissue Reactions in Immunity |
| 1932 | Henry Eyring | Quantum Mechanics of Conjugate Double Bonds |
| 1931 | Carl Caskey Speidel | Studies of Living Nerves II. Activities of Amoeboid Growth Cones, Sheath Cells and Myelin Segments, as Revealed by Prolonged Observation of Individual Fibers in Frog Tadpoles |
| 1930 | M. A. Tuve, L. R. Hafstad and O. Dahl | Experiments with High Voltage Tubes |
| 1929 | Arthur J. Dempster | For his work on the reflection of protons from a calcite crystal |
| 1928 | Oliver Kamm | Hormones from the Pituitary Gland |
| 1927 | H. J. Muller | Effects of X-Radiation on Genes and Chromosomes |
| 1926 | George David Birkhoff | A Mathematical Critique of Some Physical Theories |
| 1925 | Dayton C. Miller | The Michelson-Morley Ether Drift Experiment, its History and Significance |
| 1924 | Edwin P. Hubble | Cepheids in Spiral Nebulae |
| 1924 | L. R. Cleveland | For two papers on the symbiosis between termites and their intestinal protozoa |
| 1923 | Leonard Eugene Dickson | On the Theory of Numbers and Generalized Quaternions |
