| 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 |
| 2022 | Jacqueline Barton, California Institute of Technology |
