| Year | Recipient |
| 1962 | James N. Brune |
| 1963 | Alexander J. Dessler |
| 1964 | Klaus Hasselmann |
| 1965 | Gordon J. F. MacDonald |
| 1966 | Don L. Anderson |
| 1967 | Manik Talwani |
| 1968 | Michael B. McElroy |
| 1969 | Richard S. Lindzen |
| 1970 | Lynn R. Sykes |
| 1971 | Carl I. Wunsch |
| 1972 | John Michael Wallace |
| 1973 | R. Allan Freeze |
| 1974 | Amos M. Nur |
| 1975 | Dan McKenzie; Vytenis M. Vasyliunas; Gerald Schubert |
| 1976 | John S. Lewis; Kurt Lambeck; Robert L. Parker |
| 1977 | Paul G. Richards; Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe; Christopher T. Russell |
| 1978 | John M. Edmond; Thomas E. Holzer |
| 1979 | Ralph J. Cicerone; Michael C. Kelley; R. Keith O'Nions |
| 1980 | Lawrence Grossman; Thomas Westfall Hill; Norman H. Sleep |
| 1981 | Ronald G. Prinn; David J. Southwood; Donald J. Weidner |
| 1982 | Rafael L. Bras; Donald W. Forsyth; Steven C. Wofsy |
| 1983 | William L. Chameides; Donald J. DePaolo; Thomas H. Jordan |
| 1984 | Mary K. Hudson; Raymond Jeanloz; John H. Woodhouse |
| 1985 | William H. Matthaeus; Susan Solomon; John M. Wahr |
| 1986 | Bradford H. Hager; Edward M. Stolper; Robert A. Weller |
| 1987 | J. Leslie Smith; Toshio Terasawa; Mary Lou Zoback |
| 1988 | Douglas R. MacAyeal; Marcia McNutt; Kevin B. Quest |
| 1989 | Richard G. Gordon; Seth A. Stein; William Roy Young |
| 1990 | Ellen R.M. Druffel; Steven M. Gorelick; Paul Segall |
| 1991 | Thomas A. Herring; Roderic L. Jones; Thorne Lay |
| 1992 | Eric Kunze (oceanographer); David G. Sibeck; Terry C. Wallace |
| 1993 | Michael Gurnis; David J. McComas; Margaret A. Tolbert |
| 1994 | Jeremy Bloxham; Daniel J. Jacob; John E. Vidale |
| 1995 | Stephen Fuselier; Jonathan I. Lunine; Jason Phipps Morgan |
| 1996 | David Bercovici; Dara Entekhabi; David Roy Hanson |
| 1997 | Edouard Bard; Marc Parlange; Robert van der Hilst |
| 1998 | Tuija I. Pulkkinen; Lars P. Stixrude; |
| 1999 | Jeroen Tromp; Rainer Hollerbach; Kenneth A. Farley |
| 2000 | Scott Doney; Erik Hauri; Quentin Williams (geochemist) |
| 2001 | Vassilis Angelopoulos; Daniel P. Schrag; Azadeh Tabazadeh |
| 2002 | George Katul; John M. Eiler; Michael Manga |
| 2003 | Kurt M. Cuffey; Guido Salvucci; Lianxing Wen |
| 2004 | Robin M. Canup; Daniel Sigman; David W. J. Thompson |
| 2005 | Paul Asimow; A. Hope Jahren; James T. Randerson |
| 2006 | Daniel J. Frost; Jerry Goldstein; Jun Korenaga |
| 2007 | Amy C. Clement; Jeanne Hardebeck; Francis Nimmo |
| 2008 | James Badro; Emily E. Brodsky; Diane E. Pataki |
| 2009 | Peter Huybers; Miaki Ishii; Benjamin P. Weiss |
| 2010 | David B. Lobell; Rosalind E. Rickaby; Jasper A. Vrugt |
| 2011 | Tanja Bosak; Nicolas Dauphas; Arlene Fiore; Adam Maloof; Christian Schoof |
| 2012 | David Richard Shelly; Gabriel J. Bowen; Josef Dufek; |
| 2013 | Jesse Kroll; Motohiko Murakami; Sonia I. Seneviratne; |
| 2014 | Rajdeep Dasgupta; Christian Frankenberg; J. Taylor Perron; David Shuster; Jessica Tierney |
| 2015 | Paul Cassak; Bethany L. Ehlmann; Colette L. Heald; Matthew G. Jackson; Katharine Maher |
| 2016 | Andy Hooper; Appy Sluijs; Gabriele Villarini; Maureen D. Long; Toshi Nishimura |
| 2017 | Yan Lavallée; Wen Li; Tiffany A. Shaw; Michael P. Lamb; Robert E. Kopp |
| 2018 | Steven J. Davis; Walter W. Immerzeel; Isaac R. Santos; Drew L. Turner; Caroline Ummenhofer |
| 2019 | Amir AghaKouchak, Anton Artemyev, Emily V. Fischer, Francis A. Macdonald, Erik van Sebille |
| 2020 | Kyle Armour, Sarah M Horst, Brandon Schmandt, Yoshihide Wada, Kelly C Wrighton |
| 2021 | Elizabeth A Barnes, Christopher H K Chen, Ciaran J Harman, Christopher T. Reinhard, Anja Schmidt |
| 2022 | Jessica Creveling, Pierre Gentine, Lars N. Hansen, Scott Jasechko, Zhongwen Zhan |
| 2023 | Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Natalya A Gomez, Kaiyu Guan, Allison N. Jaynes, Yuan Wang |
| 2024 | C. Brenhin Keller, Megan Konar, Alexandra G. Konings, Dustin M. Schroeder, Malte F. Stuecker |