| Årtal | Pristagare | Verksam på |
| 1993 | Charles Musgrave | California Institute of Technology |
| 1995 | Nadrian C. Seeman | New York University |
| 1997 | Teoretisk del: Charles Bauschlicher, Stephen Barnard, Creon Levit, Glenn Deardorff, Al Globus, Jie Han, Richard Jaffe, Alessandra Ricca, Marzio Rosi, Deepak Srivastava, H. Thuemmel | NASA Ames, MRJ Team |
| Experimentell del: James K. Gimzewski, Reto Schlittler och Christian Joachim | IBM Zurich Research Laboratory och CEMES-CNRS |
| 1998 | Teoretisk del: Ralph C. Merkle | Zyvex,LLC |
| Experimentell del: M. Reza Ghadiri | Scripps Reasearch Institute |
| 1999 | Teoretisk del: William A. Goddard III, Tahir Cagin och Yue Qi | California Institute of Technology |
| Experimentell del: Phaedon Avouris | IBM |
| 2000 | Teoretisk del: Uzi Landman | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Experimentell del: R. Stanley Williams, Philip Kuekes och James R. Heath | HP Labs och UCLA |
| 2001 | Teoretisk del: Mark A. Ratner | Northwestern University |
| Experimentell del: Charles M. Lieber | Harvard University |
| 2002 | Teoretisk del: Don Brenner | North Carolina State University |
| Experimentell del: Chad Mirklin | Northwestern University |
| 2003 | Teoretisk del: Marvin L. Cohen och Steven G. Louie | University of California, Berkeley |
| Experimentell del: Carlo Montemagno | UCLA |
| 2004 | Teoretisk del: David Baker och Brian Kuhlman | University of Washington och University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Experimentell del: Homme Hellinga | Duke University |
| 2005 | Teoretisk del: Christian Joachim | CEMES-CNRS |
| Experimentell del: Christian Schafmeister | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2006 | Teoretisk del: Erik Winfree och Paul W. K. Rothemund | California Institute of Technology |
| Experimentell del: Erik Winfree och Paul W. K. Rothemund | California Institute of Technology |
| 2007 | Teoretisk del: David A. Liegh | University of Edinburgh |
| Experimentell del: J. Fraser Stoddart | UCLA |
| 2008 | Teoretisk del: George C. Schatz | Northwestern University |
| Experimentell del: James Tour | Rice University |
| 2009 | Teoretisk del: Robert A. Freitas Jr. | Institute for Molecular Manufacturing |
| Experimentell del: Yoshiaki Sugimoto och Masayuki Abe | Osaka universitet |
| 2010 | Teoretisk del: Gustavo E. Scuseria | Rice University |
| Experimentell del: Masakazu Aono | MANA Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan |
| 2011 |
Teoretisk del: Raymond Astumian |
University of Maine |
| Experimentell del: Leonhard Grill |
Fritz Haber-Institut, Tyskland |
| 2012 |
Teoretisk del: David Soloveichik |
University of California |
| Experimentell del: Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross och Jascha Repp |
IBM Research in Zürich |
| 2013 |
Teoretisk del: David N. Beratan |
Duke University |
| Experimentell del: Alexander K. Zettl |
U.C. Berkeley och Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 2014 |
Teoretisk del: Amanda S. Barnard |
Australia’s Office of the Chief Executive och Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (statlig myndighet i Australien) |
| Experimentell del: Joseph W. Lyding |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign och Beckman Institute |
| 2015 |
Teoretisk del: Markus J. Buehler |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Experimentell del: Michelle Y. Simmons |
The University of New South Wales |
| 2016 |
Teoretisk del: Bartosz A. Grzybowski |
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Sydkorea |
| Experimentell del: Franz J. Giessibl |
Regensburgs universitet (Tyskland) |
| 2017 |
Teoretisk del: Giovanni Zocchi |
University of California |
| Experimentell del: William M Shih |
Harvard University |