| 2019 |
Anne Villeneuve, Stanford University |
| 2018 |
Mariana Wolfner, Cornell University |
| 2017 |
David Kingsley, Stanford University and HHMI |
| 2016 |
Detlef Weigel, Max Plank Institute for Developmental Biology |
| 2015 |
Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, and HHMI |
| 2014 |
Angelika B. Amon, Massachuetts Institute of Technology and HHMI |
| 2013 |
Elaine A. Ostrander, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health |
| 2012 |
Joanne Chory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| 2011 |
John R. Carlson, Yale University |
| 2010 |
Barbara J. Meyer, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2009 |
Marian Carlson, Columbia University and HHMI |
| 2008 |
Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and HHMI |
| 2007 |
Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University |
| 2006 |
Victor Ambros, Dartmouth Medical School |
| 2005 |
Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard Medical School |
| 2004 |
Trudy F. C. Mackay, North Carolina State University |
| 2003 |
Jeffrey C. Hall, Brandeis University |
| 2002 |
Andrew Z. Fire, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| 2001 |
H. Robert Horvitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2000 |
Jack Szostak, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School |
| 1999 |
Charles H. Langley, University of California, Davis |
| 1998 |
Ronald W. Davis, Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 1997 |
Christine Guthrie, University of California, San Francisco |
| 1996 |
Elliot Meyerowitz, California Institute of Technology |
| 1995 |
Eric Wieschaus, Princeton University |
| 1994 |
Leland H. Hartwell, University of Washington |
| 1993 |
Jonathan R. Beckwith, Harvard University |
| 1992 |
Maynard V. Olson, University of Washington |
| 1991 |
Bruce S. Baker, Stanford University |
| 1990 |
Nancy Kleckner, Harvard University |
| 1989 |
Allan C. Spradling, Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| 1988 |
David Botstein, Stanford University |
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Ira Herskowitz, University of California, San Francisco |
| 1987 |
Sydney Brenner, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 1986 |
Gerald Rubin, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1985 |
Philip Leder, Harvard University |
| 1984 |
David S. Hogness, Stanford University |
| 1983 |
Charles Yanofsky, Stanford University |
| 1982 |
Gerald R. Fink, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1981 |
Beatrice Mintz, Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia |
