| Year |
Recipient |
| 2024 |
Max McDaniel, Chevron Phillips Chemical (link opens on SC America) |
| 2023 |
Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology (link opens on SC America) |
| 2022 |
Dennis C. Liotta, Emory University |
| 2020 |
Dr Jane Frommer, Science Advisor, Google |
| 2019 |
Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University |
| 2018 |
Barbara Haviland Minor, The Chemours Company |
| 2017 |
Ann E Weber, Ph.D, Kallyope Inc. |
| 2016 |
Peter Trefonas, Dow Chemical Company |
| 2015 |
Cynthia A Maryanoff, Johnson & Johnson |
| 2014 |
John C Warner, Warner Babcock |
| 2013 |
Bruce Roth, Genentech |
| 2012 |
Robert S Langer, MIT |
| 2011 |
Rodney Banks, Nalco |
| 2010 |
Ronald Breslow, Columbia University |
| 2009 |
Richard B Silverman, Northwestern University |
| 2008 |
Ian Shankland, Honeywell Specialty Chemicals |
| 2007 |
Herbert Boyer, Genentech |
| 2006 |
James C Stevens, Dow Chemical Company |
| 2005 |
Robert W Gore, WL Gore & Associates |
| 2004 |
Gordon E Moore, Intel Corporation |
| 2003 |
William H Joyce, Hercules |
| 2002 |
Paul S Anderson, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| 2001 |
Elsa Reichmanis, Lucent Technology, Bell Labs |
| 2000 |
Norman N Li, NI Chemical Technologies |
| 1999 |
Albert A Carr, Marion Roussel |
| 1998 |
David R Bryant, Union Carbide |
| 1997 |
Stephanie Kwolek, DuPont |
| 1996 |
Marion D Francis, Procter & Gamble |
| 1995 |
Delbert H Meyer, Amoco |
| 1994 |
Marinus Los, American Cyanamid |
| 1993 |
Lubomyr T Romankiw, IBM |
| 1992 |
Edith M Flanigen, UOP |
| 1991 |
Miguel A Ondetti, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| 1990 |
John E Franz, Monsanto |
| 1989 |
Frederick J Karol, Union Carbide |
| 1988 |
James F Roth, Monsanto, Air Products |
| 1987 |
J Paul Hogan and Robert L Banks, Phillips Petroleum |
| 1986 |
Peter Regna, Pfizer, Squibb, Harrington |
| 1985 |
Paul B Weisz, Mobil |
| 1984 |
John H Sinfelt, Exxon |
| 1983 |
N Bruce Hannay, Bell Labs, AT&T |
| 1982 |
Herbert C Brown, Purdue University |
| 1981 |
Ralph Landau, Scientific Design Company |
| 1980 |
Herman F Mark, Polytechnic University of Brooklyn |
| 1979 |
James D Idol Jr, Ashland Oil |
| 1978 |
Donald F Othmer, Polytechnic University of Brooklyn |
| 1977 |
Paul J Flory, DuPont, Cornell University |
| 1976 |
Lewis H Sarett, Merck |
| 1975 |
Carl Djerassi, Syntex, Stanford University |
| 1974 |
Edwin H Land, Polaroid |
| 1973 |
Theodore L Cairns, DuPont |
| 1972 |
Robert Burns MacMullin, Mathieson, MacMullin Associates |
| 1971 |
James F Hyde, Dow Corning |
| 1970 |
Milton Harris, Harris Research Labs, Gillette |
| 1969 |
Robert W Cairns, Hercules |
| 1968 |
Henry B Hass, Purdue University, GAF |
| 1967 |
Vladimir Haensel, UOP |
| 1966 |
Manson Benedict, MW Kellogg, MIT |
| 1965 |
Carl S Marvel, University of Illinois |
| 1964 |
William J Sparks, Esso |
| 1963 |
William O Baker, Bell Labs, AT&T |
| 1962 |
Eugene G Rochow, General Electric |
| 1961 |
Carl F Prutton, FMC |
| 1960 |
Karl Folkers, Merck |
| 1959 |
Eugene J Houdry, Houdry Process, Sun Oil Company |
| 1958 |
William J Kroll, Consulting Metallurgist |
| 1957 |
Glenn T Seaborg, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1956 |
Edgar C Britton, Dow Chemical Company |
| 1955 |
Roger Williams, DuPont |
| 1954 |
Roger Adams, University of Illinois |
| 1953 |
Charles A Thomas, Thomas & Hochwalt, Monsanto |
| 1952 |
Robert M Burns, Bell Labs, AT&T |
| 1951 |
Henry Howard, Merrimac Chemical |
| 1950 |
Eger V Murphree, Standard Oil Development |
| 1949 |
Carl S Miner, Miner Laboratories |
| 1948 |
Clarence W Balke, University of Illinois, Fansteel |
| 1947 |
Robert R Williams, Bell Labs, AT&T |
| 1946 |
Francis C Frary, Alcoa |
| 1945 |
Elmer K Bolton, DuPont |
| 1944 |
Gaston F Dubois, Monsanto |
| 1943 |
Robert E Wilson, MIT, Standard of Indiana |
| 1942 |
Martin Ittner, Colgate |
| 1941 |
John V N Dorr, Dorr |
| 1940 |
Charles M A Stine, DuPont |
| 1939 |
Walter S Landis, American Cyanamid |
| 1938 |
Frank J Tone, Union Carbide |
| 1937 |
Thomas Midgley Jr, General Motors |
| 1936 |
Warren K Lewis, MIT |
| 1935 |
George O Curme Jr, Union Carbide |
| 1934 |
Colin G Fink, General Electric, Columbia University |
| 1933 |
George Oenslager, BF Goodrich |
| 1932 |
Charles F Burgess, University of Wisconsin |
| 1931 |
Arthur D Little, AD Little |
| 1930 |
Herbert H Dow, Dow Chemical Company |
| 1929 |
Eugene C Sullivan, Dow Corning |
| 1928 |
Irving Langmuir, General Electric |
| 1927 |
John E Teeple, Consulting Chemical Engineer |
| 1926 |
Richard B Moore, US Bureau of Mines, Dorr |
| 1925 |
Hugh K Moore, Moore Process |
| 1924 |
Frederick M Becket, Union Carbide |
| 1923 |
Milton C Whitaker, Columbia University |
| 1922 |
William M Burton, Standard Oil of Indiana |
| 1921 |
Willis R Whitney, General Electric |
| 1920 |
Charles F Chandler, Columbia University |
| 1919 |
Frederick G Cottrell, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1918 |
Auguste J Rossi, Consulting Metallurgist |
| 1917 |
Ernst Twitchell, Emery Candle |
| 1916 |
Leo H Baekeland, Bakelite Corporation |
| 1915 |
Edward Weston, Weston Electric Meter |
| 1914 |
John W Hyatt, Celluloid Manufacturing |
| 1913 |
James Gayley, US Steel |
| 1912 |
Herman Frasch, Union Sulphur |
| 1911 |
Charles M Hall, Alcoa |
| 1910 |
Edward G Acheson, Carborundum |
| 1909 |
Arno Behr, Mathiessen & Wiechers |
| 1908 |
J B F Herreshoff, General Chemical |
| 1906 |
Sir William H Perkin |
