2019
Keith Marshall Jones III in recognition of his book John Laurance: The Immigrant Founding Father America Never Knew.

2017
A. Mark Smith for his book Optical Magic in the Late Renaissance: Giambattista Della Porta’s 'De Refractione' of 1593.

2016
Pamela Webb in recognition of her book The Tower of the Winds in Athens – Greeks, Romans, Christians, and Muslims: Two Millennia of Continual Use.

2014
Edward J. Olszewski for his monograph Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck: A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art (Memoirs, volume 269).

2013
Anthony M. Cummings for his monograph Nino Pirrotta: An Intellectual Biography.

2012
Neil L. Rudenstine for his book The House of Barnes: The Man, The Collection, The Controversy.

2011
Victoria R. Bricker and Harvey M. Bricker for their book Astronomy in the Maya Codices.

2010
A. Mark Smith for his book Alhacen on Refraction: A Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of Book 7 of Alhacen's De Aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir.

2009
Stephen G. Brush for his book Choosing Selection: The Revival of Natural Selection in Anglo-American Evolutionary Biology, 1930-1970.

2008
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt for her monograph Franz Boas and W.E.B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906.

2007
Lionel Gossman for his monograph The Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck's “Italia und Germania” published in the Society’s Transactions, volume 97, part 5.

2006
Vincent Ilardi for his monograph, Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes.

2005
Derek S. Linton for his monograph, Emil von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy.

2004
Edward J. Olszewski for Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII.

2003
James E. McClellan for Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1973.

2002
Gunther S. Stent for Paradoxes of Free Will.

2001
A. Mark Smith for Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of the First Three Books of Alhacen's De aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir.

2000
June Z. Fullmer (posthumous) for Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Scientist.

1999
Francesca Rochberg for Babylonian Horoscopes.

1998
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. for Patriot-Improvers, Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society, 1743-1769.

Martin W. Daly for The Sirdar. Sir Reginald Wingate and the British Empire in the Middle East.

1996
Joseph R. McElrath for The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898.

1995
Herbert H. Kaplan for Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II.

Corinne Comstock Weston for The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendum Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846-1922.

1994
Paul Bushkovitch and Maija Jansson for England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614.

Barbara Nevling Porter for Images, Power and Politics: Figurative Aspects of Esarhaddon's Babylonian Policy.

1993
David Gilman Romano for Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek 'Stadion'.

1992
Sister Irma Corcoran for Thomas Holme, 1624-1695, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania.

1991
William O. Oldson for A Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Romania.

1990
Joseph S. Fruton for Contrasts in Scientific Style.

Kenneth M. Setton for Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century.

1989
Marshall Clagett for Ancient Egyptian Science.

1988
Paul M. Lloyd for From Latin to Spanish.

1987
Darwin Stapleton for The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America.

1986
Maija Jansson for Proceedings in Parliament 1614.

1985
William Roach for The Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chretien de Troyes, Volume 5.

1984
Kenneth M. Setton for The Papacy and the Levant, Volumes 3 and 4.

1981
Marshall Clagett for Archimedes in the Middle Ages, Volume 4.

1979
Roland Mushat Frye for “Milton's Paradise Lost and the Visual Arts.”

1978
Lois Wladis Hoffman for “The Value of Children to Parents and the Decrease in Family Size.”

1977
Choh Hao Li for “Hormones of the Adenohypophysis.”

1976
Owen Gingerich for “From Copernicus to Kepler:Heliocentrism as Model and as Reality.”

1975
Frederick Albert Pottle for “Wordsworth in the Present Day.”

1974
George Kennan for “The Historiography of the Early Political Career of Stalin.”

1973
Neal A. Weber for “Gardening Ants, the Attines.”

1972
Thomas Gold for “The Nature of the Lunar Surface: Recent Evidence.”

1971
Paul Weiss for “Panta Rhei and So Flow Our Nerves.”

1970
Elizabeth M. Ramsey for “New Appraisal of an Old Organ: The Placenta.”

1969
Herbert L. Ratcliffe for “Contributions of a Zoo to an Ecology of Disease.”

1968
Adolf A. Berle for “The Laws of Power: An Approach to Its Systematic Study.”

1967
Millard Meiss for “Sleep in Venice. Ancient Myths and Renaissance Proclivities.”

1966
William J. Robbins for “Topophysis, a Problem in Somatic Inheritance.”

1965
Robert D. Dripps for “General Anesthesia and the Circulation.”

1964
E. A. Speiser for “Cuneiform Law and the History of Civilization.”

1963
Edwin Bidwell Wilson for “The Last Unpublished Notes of Williard J. Gibbs.”

1962
E . Wyllys Andrews for “Excavations at Dzibilchaltun, Northwestern Yucatan, Mexico.”

1961
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt for “The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers.”

1960
G. Ledyard Stebbins for “The Role of Hybridization in Evolution.”

1959
Frank Lappin Horsfall for “Can Viruses Be Managed?”

1958
Jesse W. Beams for “The Magnetically Supported Equilibrium Ultracentrifuge.”

1957
Kenneth M. Setton for “The Byzantine Background to the Italian Renaissance.”

1956
Geroid T. Robinson for “Stalin's Vision of Utopia: the Future Communist Society.”

1955
John C. Trever for “Studies in the Problem of Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

1954
Robert Livingston Schuyler for “British Imperial Theory and American Territorial Policy - A Suggested Relationship.”

1953
Bart J. Bok for “Studies of the Southern Milky Way.”

1952
Otto Neugebauer for “The Babylonian Method for the Computation of the Last Visibilities of Mercury.”

1951
Joseph J. Spengler for “Economic Factors in the Development of Densely Populated Areas.”

1950
Sewall Wright for “Population Structure in Evolution.”

1949
Wallace O. Fenn for “Physiology of Exposures to Abnormal Concentrations of the Respiratory Gases.”

1948
Donald R. Young for “The Technique of Race Relations and Limiting Factors in the Development of the Social Sciences.”

1946
Enrico Fermi for “The Development of the First Chain Reacting Pile.”

1944
Samuel Noah Kramer for “Sumerian Literature: a Preliminary Survey of the Oldest Literature in the World, Sumerian Mythology: a Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.”

1943
George Gaylord Simpson for “The Beginnings of Vertebrate Paleontology in North America.”

1941
George Howard Parker for “Integumentary Color Changes of Elasmobranch Fishes of Mustelus, Melanophore Responses and Blood Supply (Vasomotor Changes), On the Neurohumors of the Color Changes in Catfishes and on Fats and Oils as Protective Agents for Such Substances.”

1940
Earle Radcliffe Caley for “The Composition of Ancient Greek Bronze Coins.”

1939
Henry Norris Russell for “Stellar Energy.”

1938
Arthur J. Dempster for “New Methods in Mass Spectroscopy and Further Experiments on the Mass Analysis of the Chemical Elements.”

1937
Ralph E. Cleland for “Cyto-Taxonomic Studies on Certain Oenotheras from California and A Cytogenetic and Taxonomic Attack upon the Phylogeny and Systematics of Oenothera (Evening Primrose) with Special Reference to the Sub-genus Onagra.”