text: *1972 Paul W. Gast
  *1973 Robert M. Garrels
  *1974 Hans E. Suess
  *1975 Harold C. Urey
  *1976 Hans P. Eugster
  *1977 Samuel Epstein
  *1978 Gerald J. Wasserburg
  *1979 Harmon Craig
  *1980 Clair C. Patterson
  *1981 Robert N. Clayton
  *1982 Konrad B. Krauskopf
  *1983 Samuel S. Goldich
  *1984 Alfred Nier
  *1985 James B. Thompson Jr.
  *1986 Claude Allègre
  *1987 Wallace S. Broecker
  *1988 Harold C. Helgeson
  *1989 Karl K. Turekian
  *1990 Edward Anders
  *1991 Alfred Edward Ringwood
  *1992 Stanley R. Hart
  *1993 S. Ross Taylor
  *1994 Heinrich D. Holland
  *1995 Robert A. Berner
  *1996 Albrecht W. Hofmann
  *1997 Devendra Lal
  *1998 Werner Stumm
  *2000 Geoffrey Eglinton
  *2001 Ikuo Kushiro
  *2002 John M. Hayes
  *2003 Bernard J. Wood
  *2004 James R. O'Neil
  *2005 E. Bruce Watson
  *2006 Susan Solomon
  *2007 Guenter Lugmair
  *2008 Francis Albarède
  *2009 Mark H. Thiemens
  *2010 Minoru Ozima
  *2011 Frank Millero
  *2012 Edward M. Stolper
  *2013 Henry "Harry" Elderfield
  *2014 Timothy Grove
  *2015 Miriam Kastner
  *2016 Alexandra Navrotsky
  *2017 Jill Banfield
  *2018 Michael A. Arthur
  *2019 Donald DePaolo
  *2020 Richard Carlson
  *2021 Bernard Marty