| Year | Name | Institution |
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| 1990 | Wallace S. Broecker and Hans Oeschger | Columbia University, USA, and University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 1995 | Samuel Epstein, Robert N. Clayton, and Hugh P. Taylor, Jr. | California Institute of Technology (Epstein and Taylor) and University of Chicago (Clayton), USA |
| 1997 | Geoffrey Eglinton and John Hayes | University of Bristol, UK and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA |
| 1998 | Jean-Guy Schilling | University of Rhode Island, USA |
| 1999 | John M. Edmond | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| 2000 | Donald J. DePaolo | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 2001 | Keith O'Nions | University of Oxford, UK |
| 2002 | Grenville Turner | University of Manchester, UK |
| 2003 | Nicholas Shackleton | University of Cambridge, UK |
| 2004 | Harold C. Helgeson | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 2005 | Alexandra Navrotsky | University of California, Davis, USA |
| 2006 | Herbert Palme | University of Cologne, Germany |
| 2007 | Harry Elderfield | Cambridge University, UK |
| 2008 | Pascal Richet | IPGP, France |
| 2009 | François Morel | Princeton University, USA |
| 2010 | Charles Langmuir | Harvard University, USA |
| 2011 | Donald E. Canfield | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| 2012 | Alexander Halliday | University of Oxford, UK |
| 2013 | Igor Tolstikhin | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 2014 | Edward Boyle | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| 2015 | Albrecht W. Hofmann [ de ] | Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany |
| 2016 | Klaus Mezger [ de ] | University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 2017 | Eiji Ohtani [ jp ] | Tohoku University, Japan |
| 2018 | Susan L. Brantley | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| 2019 | Eric Oelkers | GET Laboratory, CNRS, France |
| 2020 | Jillian Banfield | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 2021 | Sachiko Amari | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| 2022 | William White | Cornell University, USA |
| 2023 | Bo Barker Jørgensen | Aarhus University, Denmark |
| 2024 | Janne Blichert-Toft | Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and French National Centre for Scientific Research, France |
| 2025 | Donald Sparks | University of Delaware, USA |
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