text: Source: (1968–2002) 
  *2022 Cecília Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
  *2019 Mathias Uhlen
  *2018 Albert J.R. Heck
  *2017 Carol V. Robinson
  *2016 Kári Stefánsson
  *2015 Jürgen Knoblich
  *2014 Michael N. Hall
  *2013 Richard J. Roberts
  *2012 V. Ramakrishnan 
  *2011 Elena Conti
  *2010 Harald Stenmark
  *2009 Václav Hořejší
  *2008 Tim Hunt
  *2007 Tom Rapoport
  *2006 Aaron Ciechanover
  *2005 Thomas Jenuwein
  *2004 Ryszard Gryglewski
  *2003 No award?
  *2002 Jacques Pouysségur
  *2001 Sir Philip Cohen
  *2000 Thomas Steitz
  *1999 Stanley B. Prusiner
  *1998 Bengt I. Samuelsson 
  *1997 David Baltimore
  *1996 Josef Stefaan Schell
  *1995 Kim Nasmyth
  *1994 Jean-Pierre Changeux
  *1993 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 
  *1992 Robert Huber 
  *1991 No Award
  *1990 Pierre Chambon
  *1989 Helmut Beinert
  *1988 No award
  *1987 Tom Blundell
  *1986 Gottfried Schatz
  *1985 Robert Joseph Paton Williams 
  *1984 Richard Henderson
  *1983 Arthur Kornberg
  *1982 François Jacob
  *1981 Cesar Milstein 
  *1980 Sydney Brenner (No lecture due to illness)
  *1979 Pierre Desnuelle
  *1978 Peter D. Mitchell
  *1977 Francis Crick
  *1976 No award
  *1975 Heinz-Gunter Wittmann 
  *1974 Charles Weissmann 
  *1973 Arthur B. Pardee
  *1972 Ephraim Katchalski
  *1971 David Chilton Phillips
  *1970 No Award
  *1969 Alexander Spirin
  *1968 Max Perutz (inaugural award)