Awardee and affiliation at the time of award
- 2025 Sujit Datta, California Institute of Technology
- 2023 Samira Azarin, University of Minnesota
- 2022 Ying Diao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2021 Ryan Lively, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2019 Amish Patel, University of Pennsylvania
- 2018 Matthew Helgeson, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2017 Mikhail G. Shapiro, California Institute of Technology
- 2016 Jodie Lutkenhasu, Texas A&M University
- 2015 Chinedum Osuji, Yale University
- 2014 Christopher Love, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2013 Daeyeon Lee, University of Pennsylvania
- 2012 Kristala Prather, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2011 Hang Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2010 Abraham Stroock, Cornell University
- 2009 Rachel A. Segalman, University of California, Berkeley
- 2008 Patrick S. Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2007 Thomas M. Truskett, University of Texas, Austin
- 2006 Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota
- 2005 David Schaffer, University of California, Berkeley
- 2004 Samir Mitragotri, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2003 George Georgiou, University of Texas, Austin
- 2002 Nicholas L. Abbott, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 2001 Eric S.G. Shaqfeh, Stanford University
- 2000 Karen K. Gleason, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1999 James B. Rawlings, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1998 Nitash Balsara, Polytechnic University of New York
- 1997 T. Kyle Vanderlick, Princeton University
- 1996 Buddy D. Ratner, University of Washington
- 1995 Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Cornell University
- 1994 Frances H. Arnold, California Institute of Technology
- 1993 Eduardo D. Glandt, University of Pennsylvania
- 1992 William J. Koros, University of Texas, Austin
- 1991 H.C. Van Ness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Joe M. Smith, University of California, Davis