| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|
| Sankar Adhya | National Institutes of Health | 1994 |
| Victor Ambros | University of Massachusetts Medical School | 2007 |
| Angelika Amon (d. 2020) | MIT | 2010 |
| Kathryn Anderson (d. 2020) | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | 2002 |
| Werner Arber | University of Basel | 1984 |
| Bruce Baker (d. 2018) | Stanford University | 1993 |
| Utpal Banerjee | University of California, Los Angeles | 2018 |
| Rodolphe Barrangou | North Carolina State University | 2018 |
| Bonnie Bartel | Rice University | 2016 |
| George Beadle (d. 1989) | Stanford University | 1944 |
| Hugo J. Bellen | Baylor College of Medicine | 2020 |
| Seymour Benzer (d. 2007) | California Institute of Technology | 1961 |
| Sue Biggins | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 2015 |
| Kerry Bloom | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2021 |
| Jef D. Boeke | New York University | 2013 |
| Nancy Bonini | University of Pennsylvania | 2012 |
| David Botstein | Princeton University | 1981 |
| Sydney Brenner | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 1977 |
| Royal Alexander Brink (d. 1984) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1947 |
| Allan Campbell (d. 2018) | Stanford University | 1971 |
| John Carlson | Yale University | 2012 |
| Marian Carlson | Columbia University | 2009 |
| L. L. Cavalli-Sforza | Stanford University | 1978 |
| Martin Chalfie | Columbia University | 2004 |
| Louise Chow | University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2012 |
| Thomas Cline | University of California, Berkeley | 1996 |
| Stanley N. Cohen | Stanford University | 1979 |
| Victor Corces | Emory University School of Medicine | 2020 |
| Elizabeth A. Craig | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1998 |
| James F. Crow (d. 2012) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1961 |
| Ronald W. Davis | Stanford University | 1983 |
| Joseph DeRisi | UC San Francisco | 2016 |
| William Dove | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1998 |
| Monica A. Driscoll | Rutgers University | 2023 |
| Jay Dunlap | Dartmouth College | 2009 |
| Harrison Echols (d. 1993) | University of California, Berkeley | 1991 |
| Robert Stuart Edgar (d. 2016) | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2007 |
| Evan E. Eichler | University of Washington | 2013 |
| Sarah Elgin | Washington University in St. Louis | 2018 |
| Scott Emmons | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | 2024 |
| Ellis Englesberg | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1986 |
| Stanley Fields | University of Washington | 2000 |
| Gerald Fink | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1981 |
| Andrew Fire | Stanford University | 2004 |
| Maurice Fox (d. 2020) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1988 |
| Antonio Garcia-Bellido | Autonomous University of Madrid | 1987 |
| Barry Ganetzky | UW Madison | 2006 |
| Alan Garen (d. 2022) | Yale University | 1971 |
| Martin Gellert | National Institutes of Health | 1986 |
| Michel A. J. Georges | University of Liège | 2013 |
| Norman Giles | University of Georgia | 1966 |
| N. Louise Glass | University of California, Berkeley | 2021 |
| Michael M. Gottesman | National Institutes of Health | 2018 |
| Susan Gottesman | National Institutes of Health | 1998 |
| Daniel E. Gottschling | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 2011 |
| Melvin M. Green | University of California, Davis | 1980 |
| Iva S. Greenwald | Columbia University | 2005 |
| Shiv Grewal | NIH | 2014 |
| Carol Gross | University of California, San Francisco | 1992 |
| Alan D. Grossman | MIT | 2014 |
| Christine Guthrie (d. 2022) | University of California, San Francisco | 1993 |
| James E. Haber | Brandeis University | 2010 |
| Benjamin D. Hall (d. 2019) | University of Washington | 2014 |
| Jeffrey Hall | Brandeis University | 2003 |
| Philip Hanawalt | Stanford University | 1989 |
| Graham Hatfull | University of Pittsburgh | 2024 |
| R. Scott Hawley | Stowers Institute for Medical Research | 2011 |
| Ulrike Heberlein | HHMI | 2010 |
| Donald Helinski | University of California, San Diego | 1980 |
| Steven Henikoff | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 2005 |
| Tina Henkin | Ohio State University | 2012 |
| Leonard Herzenberg (d. 2013) | Stanford University | 1982 |
| Philip Hieter | University of British Columbia | 2016 |
| Alan Hinnebusch | NIH | 2015 |
| Ann Hochschild | Harvard Medical School | 2024 |
| Alexander Hollaender (d. 1986) | Associated Universities, Inc. | 1957 |
| Nancy Hopkins | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2004 |
| Anita Hopper | Ohio State University | 2021 |
| Norman Horowitz (geneticist) (d. 2005) | California Institute of Technology | 1969 |
| H. Robert Horvitz | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1991 |
| David Housman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1994 |
| Harvey Itano (d. 2010) | University of California, San Diego | 1979 |
| Francois Jacob | Institut Pasteur | 1969 |
| Patricia Jacobs | University of Southampton | 2009 |
| Maria Jasin | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | 2015 |
| Nancy Jenkins | Houston Methodist Research Institute | 2008 |
| Sue Jinks-Robertson | Duke University School of Medicine | 2019 |
| Alexander D. Johnson | UC San Francisco | 2011 |
| Mark Johnston (geneticist) | University of Colorado School of Medicine | 2022 |
| A. Dale Kaiser (d. 2010) | Stanford University | 1970 |
| Berwind P. Kaufmann (d. 1975) | | 1952 |
| Scott N. Keeney | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | 2020 |
| Cynthia Kenyon | University of California, San Francisco | 2003 |
| Mary-Claire King | University of Washington | 2005 |
| Nancy Kleckner | Harvard University | 1993 |
| Eugene Koonin | NIH | 2016 |
| Douglas Koshland | UC Berkeley | 2010 |
| Mark Krasnow | Stanford University School of Medicine | 2019 |
| Leonid Kruglyak | University of California, Los Angeles | 2023 |
| Mitzi Kuroda | Harvard University | 2013 |
| Sydney Kustu (d. 2014) | University of California, Berkeley | 1993 |
| Joshua Lederberg | Rockefeller University | 1957 |
| Leonard Lerman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1986 |
| Edward B. Lewis (d. 2004) | California Institute of Technology | 1968 |
| Michael Lichten | National Institutes of Health | 2022 |
| Susan Lindquist (d. 2016) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1997 |
| Dan Lindsley (d. 2018) | University of California, San Diego | 1974 |
| David Lipman | National Institutes of Health | 2003 |
| John T. Lis | Cornell University | 2015 |
| Susan Lovett | Brandeis University | 2021 |
| Victoria Lundblad | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 2015 |
| Salvador Luria (d. 1991) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1960 |
| Mary F. Lyon | Medical Research Council | 1979 |
| Boris Magasanik (d. 2013) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1969 |
| Harmit Malik | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | 2019 |
| Barbara McClintock (d. 1992) | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1944 |
| Craig Mello | University of Massachusetts Medical School | 2005 |
| M. S. Meselson | Harvard University | 1968 |
| Charles W. Metz (d. 1975) | University of Pennsylvania | 1948 |
| Robert Metzenberg (d. 2007) | University of California, Los Angeles | 1997 |
| Barbara Meyer | University of California, Berkeley | 2000 |
| Elliot Meyerowitz | California Institute of Technology | 1995 |
| Lois K. Miller (d. 1999) | University of Georgia | 1997 |
| Beatrice Mintz | Fox Chase Cancer Center | 1973 |
| Danesh Moazed | Harvard Medical School | 2023 |
| Hermann Joseph Muller (d. 1967) | University of Texas at Austin | 1931 |
| Andrew W. Murray | Harvard University | 2014 |
| Terry Orr-Weaver | MIT | 2006 |
| Howard Nash (d. 2011) | National Institutes of Health | 1990 |
| James V. Neel (d. 2000) | University of Michigan Medicine | 1963 |
| Elaine Ostrander | National Human Genome Research Institute | 2019 |
| Ray David Owen | California Institute of Technology | 1966 |
| David C. Page | MIT | 2005 |
| Mary-Lou Pardue (d. 2024) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1983 |
| David Perkins (d. 2007) | Stanford University | 1981 |
| Thomas Petes | Duke University | 1999 |
| John Preer Jr. (d. 2016) | Indiana University | 1976 |
| James Priess | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | 2017 |
| John Pringle (biologist) | Stanford University School of Medicine | 2017 |
| Mark Ptashne | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | 1979 |
| Theodore Puck (d. 2005) | University of Colorado Boulder | 1960 |
| Marcus Morton Rhoades (d. 1991) | Indiana University | 1946 |
| Jasper Rine | UC Berkeley | 2008 |
| Jeffrey Roberts | Cornell University | 1999 |
| Shirleen Roeder | Yale University | 2009 |
| Herschel L. Roman (d. 1989) | University of Washington | 1970 |
| John Roth | University of California, Davis | 1988 |
| Lucia B. Rothman-Denes | University of Chicago | 2014 |
| Rodney Rothstein | Columbia University | 2015 |
| Gerald Rubin | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 1987 |
| Elizabeth S. Russell (d. 2001) | Jackson Laboratory | 1972 |
| Liane Russell (d. 2019) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 1986 |
| William L. Russell (d. 2003) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 1973 |
| Gary Ruvkun | Harvard University | 2008 |
| Ruth Sager (d. 1997) | Dana–Farber Cancer Institute | 1977 |
| Margarita Salas | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain | 2007 |
| Matthew Scott | Stanford University | 1999 |
| Julie Segre | National Human Genome Research Institute | 2022 |
| Eric Selker | University of Oregon | 2012 |
| Richard Setlow | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 1973 |
| Geraldine Seydoux | Johns Hopkins University | 2016 |
| Jay Shendure | University of Washington | 2022 |
| Fred Sherman (d. 2013) | University of Rochester | 1985 |
| Obaid Siddiqi | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | 2003 |
| Melvin Simon | California Institute of Technology | 1985 |
| Oliver Smithies (d. 2017) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1971 |
| Allan C. Spradling | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1989 |
| Franklin Stahl | University of Oregon | 1976 |
| Peter Starlinger | University of Cologne | 1987 |
| George Streisinger (d. 1984) | University of Oregon | 1975 |
| Paul W. Sternberg | California Institute of Technology | 2009 |
| Gisela Storz | NIH | 2012 |
| F. William Studier | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 1992 |
| Alfred Sturtevant (d. 1970) | California Institute of Technology | 1930 |
| Lorraine S. Symington | Columbia University Irving Medical Center | 2020 |
| Jiazhen Tan | Fudan University | 1985 |
| J. Herbert Taylor (d. 1998) | Florida State University | 1977 |
| Howard Martin Temin (d. 1994) | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1974 |
| Jun-ichi Tomizawa | National Institute of Genetics | 1995 |
| Bik Kwoon Tye | Cornell University | 2023 |
| Anne Villeneuve (scientist) | Stanford University School of Medicine | 2017 |
| Graham C. Walker | MIT | 2013 |
| James D. Watson | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | 1962 |
| Reed Wickner | NIH | 2000 |
| Fred Winston | Harvard University | 2013 |
| Evelyn Witkin (d. 2023) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 1977 |
| Élie Wollman | Institut Pasteur | 1991 |
| Mariana Wolfner | Cornell University | 2019 |
| William Wood (d. 2024) | University of Colorado at Boulder | 1972 |
| Charles Yanofsky (d. 2018) | Stanford University | 1966 |
| Virginia Zakian | Princeton University | 2018 |
| Phillip D. Zamore | UMass Chan Medical School | 2023 |
| Norton Zinder | Rockefeller University | 1969 |
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