1987
Philip Morrison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics

1988
Freeman T. Dyson
Institute for Advanced Study
School of Natural Sciences

1989
Gerald Holton
Harvard University
Department of Physics

1990
Jeremy Bernstein
Stevens Institute of Technology
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics

1991
Cyril Stanley Smith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

1992
Martin Aitken
Le Garret

1993
Abraham Pais
Rockefeller University
Department of Physics

1994
Spencer Weart
American Institute of Physics
Center for History of Physics

1995
Robert R. Wilson
Cornell University
F.R. Newman Lab of Nuclear Studies

1996
Alan P. Lightman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Space Research

1997
Steven Weinberg
University of Texas
Department of Physics

1998
Stephen W. Hawking
University of Cambridge
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

1999
Paula Apsell
NOVA
WGBH-TV

2000
James S. Trefil
George Mason University
Department of Physics

2001
Professor Lawrence Krauss
Department of Physics
Case Western Reserve University

2002
Dr. Michael Riordan
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford University

2003
Professor Brian Greene
Columbia University

2004
Dr. Alan Friedman
NY Hall of Science

2005
Dr. Hans Christian von Baeyer
The College of William and Mary

2006
Marcia Bartusiak
MIT

2007
Andrew Fraknoi
Foothill College

2008
John Rigden

2009
Brian Schwartz
CUNY

2010
Daniel Altschuler
University of Puerto Rico

2011
Stephen Maran
American Astronomical Society