1899 Henry Augustus Rowland • 1901 Albert Abraham Michelson • 1903 Arthur Gordon Webster • 1905 Carl Barus • 1907 Edward Leamington Nichols • 1909 Henry Crew • 1911 William Francis Magie • 1913 Benjamin Osgood Peirce • 1914 Ernest Merritt • 1916 Robert Andrews Millikan • 1918 Henry Andrews Bumstead • 1919 Joseph Sweetman Ames • 1921 Theodore Lyman • 1923 Thomas Corwin Mendenhall • 1925 Dayton Miller
1927 Karl Taylor Compton • 1929 Henry Gale • 1931 William Francis Gray Swann • 1933 Paul Darwin Foote • 1934 Arthur Holly Compton • 1935 Robert Williams Wood • 1936 Floyd Richtmyer • 1937 Harrison Randall • 1938 Lyman James Briggs • 1939 John Tate • 1940 John Zeleny • 1941 George Braxton Pegram • 1941 Gideon Tabor Stewart • 1942 Percy Williams Bridgman • 1943 Albert Hull • 1944 Arthur Jeffrey Dempster • 1945 Harvey Fletcher • 1946 Edward Condon • 1947 Lee Alvin DuBridge • 1948 Robert Oppenheimer • 1949 Francis Wheeler Loomis • 1950 Isidor Isaac Rabi
1951 Charles Christian Lauritsen • 1952 John Hasbrouck Van Vleck • 1953 Enrico Fermi • 1954 Hans Bethe • 1955 Raymond Thayer Birge • 1956 E. Wigner • 1957 Henry DeWolf Smyth • 1958 Jesse Beams • 1959 George Eugene Uhlenbeck • 1960 Victor Weisskopf • 1961 Frederick Seitz • 1962 William Vermillion Houston • 1963 John Harry Williams • 1964 Robert Bacher • 1965 Felix Bloch • 1966 John Archibald Wheeler • 1967 Charles Hard Townes • 1968 John Bardeen • 1969 Luis Walter Alvarez • 1970 Edward Mills Purcell • 1971 Robert Serber • 1972 Philip McCord Morse • 1973 Joseph Edward Mayer • 1974 Wolfgang Panofsky • 1975 Chien-Shiung Wu
1976 William Alfred Fowler • 1977 George Pake • 1978 Norman Foster Ramsey • 1979 Lewis Branscomb • 1980 Herman Feshbach • 1981 Arthur Schawlow • 1982 Maurice Goldhaber • 1983 Robert Marshak • 1984 Mildred Dresselhaus • 1985 Robert Rathbun Wilson • 1986 Sidney Drell • 1987 Val Logsdon Fitch • 1989 J. Krumhansl • 1990 Eugen Merzbacher • 1991 Nicolaas Bloembergen • 1992 Ernest Henley • 1993 Donald Langenberg • 1994 Burton Richter • 1995 Chandra Kumar Patel • 1996 John Robert Schrieffer • 1997 David Allan Bromley • 1998 Andrew Sessler • 1999 Jerome Isaac Friedman • 2000 James Langer
2001 George Trilling • 2002 William Brinkman • 2003 Myriam Sarachik • 2004 Helen Quinn • 2005 Marvin Cohen • 2006 John Hopfield • 2007 Leo Kadanoff • 2008 Arthur Bienenstock • 2009 Cherry Ann Murray • 2010 Curtis Callan • 2011 Barry Barish • 2012 Robert L. Byer • 2013 Michael Stanley Turner • 2014 Malcolm Beasley • 2015 Sam Aronson • 2016 Homer Neal • 2017 Laura Greene • 2018 Roger Falcone • 2019 David Gross • 2020 Philip H. Bucksbaum
