• 1977 Harry George Drickamer
• 1979 Boris Vodar, France
• 1981 E. Ulrich Franck (1920–2004), professor for physical chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe
• 1983 Albert Francis Birch (1903–1992), geophysicist and mineralogist, professor at Harvard University
• 1985 Nestor Joseph Trappeniers (1922–2004), professor in Amsterdam
• 1987 Francis P. Bundy (1910–2008), diamond synthesis under high pressure in 1954 at General Electric
• 1989 Ho-kwang Mao, Carnegie Institution, Washington D.C.
• 1991 Shigeru Minomura (1923–2000), professor at the Institute for Condensed Matter Research in Tokyo, later in Hokkaido and at Okayama University
• 1993 Arthur L. Ruoff, professor at Cornell University
• 1995 Bogdan Baranowski (1927–2014), professor of physical chemistry in Warsaw
• 1997 William A. Bassett (born 1931), professor of geology at Cornell University
• 1999 Vladimir Fortov
• 2001 William J. Nellis
• 2003 Neil Ashcroft
• 2005 Sergei Mikhailovich Stishov, professor and direct of the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2007 Takehiko Yagi, professor at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Tokyo
• 2009 Russell J. Hemley, director of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington D.C.
• 2011 Eji Ito, emeritus professor at Okayama University
• 2013 Karl Syassen
• 2015 Paul Loubeyre
• 2017 Mikhail Eremets
• 2019 Gilbert Collins
• 2021 Tetsuo Irifune

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