1955 George Sarton

1956 Charles and Dorothea Waley Singer

1957 Lynn Thorndike

1958 John F. Fulton

1959 Richard Shryock

1960 Owsei Temkin

1961 Alexandre Koyré

1962 E. J. Dijksterhuis

1963 Vassili Zoubov

1964 Not awarded

1965 J. R. Partington

1966 Anneliese Maier

1967 Not awarded

1968 Joseph Needham

1969 Kurt Vogel

1970 Walter Pagel

1971 Willy Hartner

1972 Kiyosi Yabuuti

1973 Henry Guerlac

1974 I. Bernard Cohen

1975 René Taton

1976 Bern Dibner

1977 Derek T. Whiteside

1978 A.P. Youschkevitch

1979 Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli

1980 Marshall Clagett

1981 A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall

1982 Thomas S. Kuhn

1983 Georges Canguilhem

1984 Charles Coulston Gillispie

1985 Paolo Rossi and Richard S. Westfall

1986 Ernst Mayr

1987 G.E.R. Lloyd

1988 Stillman Drake

1989 Gerald Holton

1990 A. Hunter Dupree

1991 Mirko D. Grmek

1992 Edward Grant

1993 John L. Heilbron

1994 Allen G. Debus

1995 Charles Rosenberg

1996 Loren Graham

1997 Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs

1998 Thomas L. Hankins

1999 David C. Lindberg

2000 Frederick L. Holmes

2001 Daniel J. Kevles

2002 John C. Greene

2003 Nancy Siraisi

2004 Robert E. Kohler

2005 I.A. Sabra

2006 Mary Jo Nye
2007 Martin Rudwick
2008 Ronald L. Numbers
2009 John E. Murdoch
2010 Michael McVaugh
2011 Robert J. Richards
2012 Lorraine Daston
2013 Simon Schaffer

2014 Steven Shapin