2020 David Grimes 2019 Sergej Zilitinkevich 2018 Antonio Divino Moura (Brazil)[2] 2017 Gordon McBean[3] 2016 Zeng Qing-Cun[4] 2015 Julia Slingo[5] 2014 Alexander Bedritsky 2013 Tillmann Mohr[6] 2012 Zaviša Janjić[7] 2011 Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen[8] 2010 Taroh Matsuno[9] 2009 Eugenia Kalnay[10] 2008 Qin Dahe[11] 2007 Jagadish Shukla[12] 2006 Lennart Bengtsson 2005 John Zillman 2004 Bennert Machenhauer 2003 Ye Duzheng 2002 Joanne Simpson 2001 Mohammad Hassan Ganji 2000 Edward Norton Lorenz 1999 James Dooge 1998 John T. Houghton 1997 Mariano A. Estoque 1996 T.N. Krishnamurti 1995 Roman Kintanar 1994 James P. Bruce 1993 Verner E. Suomi 1992 Yuri Izrael 1991 Ragnar Fjørtoft 1990 Richard E. Hallgren 1989 Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty 1988 F. Kenneth Hare[13] 1987 Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko[14] 1986 Hermann Flohn 1985 David Arthur Davies 1984 Thomas F. Malone[15] 1983 Muhamed F. Taha and J.J. Burgos 1982 William James Gibbs 1981 Bert Bolin 1980 Robert M. White 1979 Helmut Landsberg[16] 1978 A.E.G.E. Nyberg 1977 George P. Cressman 1976 E.K. Fedorov 1975 Warren L. Godson 1974 Joseph Smagorinsky 1973 Charles Henry Brian Priestley and John S. Sawyer 1972 Victor Antonovich Bugaev 1971 Jule G. Charney[17] 1970 Richard Th. A. Scherhag 1969 Erik Palmén 1968 Graham Sutton 1967 Kirill Y. Kondratyev 1966 Tor Bergeron 1965 Sverre Petterssen 1964 Francis Reichelderfer 1963 Reginald Sutcliffe 1962 Anders Knutsson Ångström 1961 K.R. Ramanathan 1960 Jacques van Mieghem 1959 Jacob Bjerknes[18] 1958 Ernest Gold 1957 Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby 1956 Hans Theodor Hesselberg