1952 Vladimir Prelog
1953 Marshall Gates
1954 Saul Winstein
1956 Melvin Calvin
1957 Derek Harold Richard Barton
1958 Herbert C. Brown
1959 Sir Alexander Robertus Todd
1961 William von E. Doering
1962 George Hammond
1963 Rolf Huisgen
1964 William Johnson
1965 John D. Roberts
1966 Albert Eschenmoser
1968 Costin D. Nenitzescu
1970 John W. Cornforth
1972 Duilio Arigoni
1975 Gilbert Stork
1976 Gerhard Closs
1978 Alan Battersby
1981 Paul Bartlett
1983 Raymond U. Lemieux
1985 Jack D. Dunitz
1988 Jack Baldwin
1989 George H. Büchi
1990 Dieter Seebach
1992 Alan R. Fersht
1994 Ryoji Noyori
1995 Samuel J. Danishefsky
1996 Joseph L. Goldstein
1997 Robert Huber
1998 Hisashi Yamamoto
1999 Peter B. Dervan
2000 K.C. Nicolaou
2001 Robert H. Grubbs
2002 Thomas R. Cech
2003 Robert G. Bergman
2004 Roderick MacKinnon
2005 JoAnne Stubbe
2006 Larry Overman
2007 Amir Hoveyda
2008 Stephen L. Buchwald
2009 Tohru Fukuyama
2010 John Sutherland
2011 Dale Boger
2012 Christopher T. Walsh
2013 Barry Trost
2014 John F. Hartwig
2015 Erick M. Carreira
2016 David MacMillan
2017 Scott J. Miller
2018 Carolyn Bertozzi
2019 Ben Cravatt, Emmanuelle Charpentier