| 1986 | Allen Hill, Michael Jarman |
| 1987 | Laurance D. Hall, J E Harris |
| 1988 | Brian J. Briscoe |
| 1989 | Laurie J. King |
| 1990 | John A. Pyle |
| 1991 | Richard Friend, Malcolm Stevens |
| 1992 | Martin R. Bryce, Dennis Chapman |
| 1993 | J. John Holbrook |
| 1994 | James Rankin Maxwell |
| 1995 | David Parker |
| 1996 | P Gregory |
| 1997 | Peter J. Sarre, R Duncan |
| 1998 | Richard Catlow, C T Evans |
| 1999 | Chris Dobson, Stephen Mann, Christopher Viney |
| 2000 | Martyn Poliakoff, Andrew J. Thomson |
| 2001 | Stephen K. Chapman, James Feast |
| 2002 | Peter Bruce, Stephen Neidle |
| 2003 | Richard Peter Evershed, Douglas W. Young |
| 2004 | Douglas Kell, David Leigh |
| 2005 | Fraser Armstrong, Steven M. Howdle, R. White |
| 2006 | John Goodby, David Malcolm James Lilley |
| 2007 | David Klenerman, Jeremy Nicholson |
| 2008 | no award |
| 2009 | Tom Brown, Bonnie Ann Wallace |
| 2010 | Alexei Kornyshev, Barry Potter |
| 2011 | Carol V. Robinson |
| 2012 | Hagan Bayley |
| 2013 | James Barber, Jane Clarke |
| 2014 | Steven Armes, Sabine L. Flitsch, Richard D. Pancost |
| 2015 | Elaine Holmes, Sarah L. Price, Anthony Watts |
| 2016 | Jörg Feldmann, Peter Hore, Dek Woolfson |
| 2017 | Gregory L. Challis, Melinda Duer, Fiona Meldrum |
| 2018 | Leroy Cronin, Judy Hirst, Barrie Wilkinson |