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1984 - Present

  • 2023 – Sonja Strah-Pleynet
  • 2022 – Carol Mulrooney
  • 2021 – Raj (SB) Rajur
  • 2020 – Anna W. Sromek
  • 2019 – Andrew Scholte
  • 2018 – Mindy Levine
  • 2017 – Leland L. Johnson, Jr.
  • 2016 – Jerry P. Jasinski
  • 2015 – Katherine L. Lee
  • 2014 – Catherine Costello
  • 2013 – Liming Shao
  • 2012 – Ruth Tanner
  • 2011 – Patrick Gordon
  • 2010 – John McKew
  • 2009 – E. Joseph Billo
  • 2008 – Marietta Schwartz
  • 2007 – Mukund Chorghade
  • 2006 – Patricia Mabrouk
  • 2005 – Amy Tapper
  • 2004 – Jean Fuller-Stanley
  • 2003 – John L. Neumeyer
  • 2002 – Morton Z. Hoffman
  • 2001 – Timothy B. Frigo
  • 2000 – Doris I. Lewis
  • 1999 – Donald O. Rickter
  • 1998 – Michael J. Hearn
  • 1997 – Martin Idelson
  • 1996 – Patricia L. Samuel
  • 1995 – Valerie Wilcox
  • 1994 – James Kaufman
  • 1993 – Dorothy J. Phillips
  • 1992 – Katie A. Stygall
  • 1991 – Charles E. Kolb
  • 1990 – E. Joseph Billo
  • 1989 – Michael E. Strem
  • 1988 – Thomas R. Gilbert
  • 1987 – Lloyd D. Taylor
  • 1986 – Donald J. Ciappenelli
  • 1985 – Myron S. Simon
  • 1984 – James B. Hendrickson

1941 - 1983

  • 1983 – Esther A. H. Hopkins
  • 1982 – Arthur S. Obermayer
  • 1981 – Wallace J. Gleekman
  • 1980 – S. David Bailey
  • 1979 – Robert F. O’Malley
  • 1978 – Truman S. Light
  • 1977 – William O. Foye
  • 1976 – Harry E. Keller
  • 1975 – Janet S. Perkins
  • 1974 – Phyllis A. Brauner, see NESACS award named in her memory
  • 1973 – Edward J. Modest
  • 1972 – Ernest I. Becker
  • 1971 – Edward F. Levy
  • 1970 – Robert E. Lyle
  • 1969 – Russell T. Werby
  • 1968 – Arno H. A. Heyn, see NESACS award named in his memory
  • 1967 – George E. Kimball
  • 1966 – Robert A. Shepard
  • 1965 – Arnet L. Powell
  • 1964 – Lawrence J. Heidt
  • 1963 – Henry A. Hill, see NESACS award named in his memory, ACS President 1977
  • 1962 – M. Kent Wilson
  • 1961 – Lloyd H. Perry
  • 1960 – Lloyd H. Perry
  • 1959 – John L. Oncley
  • 1958 – Howard H. Reynolds
  • 1957 – Lockhart B. Rogers
  • 1956 – Edward R. Atkinson
  • 1955 – Arthur C. Cope, see ACS award named in his memory, also an ACS scholarship, ACS President 1961
  • 1954 – C. Richard Morgan
  • 1953 – Paul D. Bartlett
  • 1952 – Thomas R. P. Gibb
  • 1951 – John A. Timm
  • 1950 – John T. Blake
  • 1949 – Avery A. Morton
  • 1948 – Ernest C. Crocker
  • 1947 – Chester M. Alter
  • 1946 – Chester P. Baker
  • 1945 – Stuart B. Foster
  • 1944 – Harold A. Iddles
  • 1943 – Harold A. Iddles
  • 1942 – Frederick S. Bacon
  • 1941 – Avery A. Ashdown, see NESACS award named in his memory

1898 - 1940

  • 1940 – John J. Healy, Jr.
  • 1939 – Thorne M. Carpenter
  • 1938 – Ernest H. Huntress
  • 1937 – Michael J. Ahearn, S.J
  • 1936 – Hervy J. Skinner
  • 1935 – Grinnell Jones
  • 1934 – Kenneth E. Bell
  • 1933 – Lester A. Pratt
  • 1932 – Raymond Stevens
  • 1931 – William P. Ryan
  • 1930 – Reid Hunt
  • 1929 – David W. Worrall
  • 1928 – Allan Winter Rowe
  • 1927 – Arthur D. Holmes
  • 1926 – Kenneth L. Mark
  • 1925 – Lyman C. Newell, see NESACS award named in his memory
  • 1924 – Hermann C. Lythgoe
  • 1923 – Gustavus J. Esselen, see NESACS award named in his memory
  • 1922 – Gustavus J. Esselen
  • 1921 – James B. Conant, see ACS award named in his memory
  • 1920 – Robert W. Neff
  • 1919 – George S. Forbes, 1st recipient of Norris award
  • 1918 – Homer J. Wheeler
  • 1917 – Elwood B. Spear
  • 1916 – Henry P. Talbot
  • 1915 – Frank H. Thorpe
  • 1914 – William K. Robbins
  • 1913 – J. Russell Marble
  • 1912 – Robert Spurr Weston
  • 1911 – William C. Bray
  • 1910 – Walter L. Jennings
  • 1908 – S. W. Wilder
  • 1908 – Gilbert N. Lewis, recipient Richards Medal in 1938.
  • 1907 – Frank G. Stantial
  • 1906 – Louis A. Olney
  • 1905 – Charles L. Parsons
  • 1904 – James F. Norris, see NESACS award named in his memory, ACS President 1925-1926
  • 1903 – William H. Walker
  • 1902 – Augustus H. Gill
  • 1901 – Leonard Parker Kinnicutt
  • 1900 – John Alden
  • 1899 – Arthur D. Little, ACS President 1912-1913
  • 1898 – Arthur A. Noyes, recipient Richards Medal in 1932, ACS President 1904
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