| 2015 | Barry M Trost | |
| 2014 | Stephen L. Buchwald | |
| 2013 | Chad A Mirkin | |
| 2012 | Robert J Cava | |
| 2011 | Larry R Dalton | |
| 2010 | Armand Paul Alivisatos | |
| 2009 | Stephen J Lippard | |
| 2008 | Thomas C Bruice | |
| 2007 | Jacqueline K Barton | |
| 2006 | Peter Stang | |
| 2005 | George M Whitesides | |
| 2004 | Martin Karplus | Nobel Prize: 2013 |
| 2003 | Robert H Grubbs | Nobel Prize: 2005 |
| 2002 | John I Brauman | |
| 2001 | Tobin J Marks | |
| 2000 | Gabor A Somorjai | |
| 1999 | Peter B Dervan | |
| 1998 | Allen J Bard | |
| 1997 | Ahmed H Zewail | Nobel Prize: 1999 |
| 1996 | Kyriacos C Nicolaou | |
| 1995 | Alexander Rich | |
| 1994 | James A Ibers | |
| 1993 | Richard N Zare | |
| 1992 | Kenneth Wiberg | |
| 1991 | Rudolph Marcus | Nobel Prize: 1992 |
| 1990 | James P Collman | |
| 1989 | Neil Bartlett | |
| 1988 | Keith Ingold | |
| 1987 | Harden McConnell | |
| 1986 | Harry B Gray | |
| 1985 | Harold A Scheraga | |
| 1984 | John S Waugh | |
| 1983 | Gilbert Stork | |
| 1982 | George Pimentel | |
| 1981 | Henry Taube | Nobel Prize: 1983 |
| 1980 | John D Roberts | |
| 1979 | Daniel E Koshland | |
| 1978 | Dudley Herschbach | Nobel Prize: 1986 |
| 1977 | John A Pople | Nobel Prize: 1998 |
| 1976 | F Albert Cotton | |
| 1975 | Paul Bartlett | |
| 1974 | Roald Hoffmann | Nobel Prize: 1981 |
| 1973 | EJ Corey | Nobel Prize: 1990 |
| 1972 | E Bright Wilson | |
| 1971 | Gerhard Herzberg | Nobel Prize: 1971 |
| 1970 | Harold C Urey | Nobel Prize: 1934 |
| 1969 | Henry Eyring | |
| 1968 | Herbert C Brown | Nobel Prize: 1979 |
| 1967 | Manfred Eigen | Nobel Prize: 1967 |
| 1966 | Linus Pauling | Nobel Prize: 1954 and Nobel Peace Prize: 1962 |
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