| 2022 | Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl | 
      
                                                                      | 2019 | Prof. Renato Zenobi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) | 
      
                                                                      | 2018 | Prof. Andrea C. Ferrari (University of Cambridge, Great Britain) | 
      
                                                                      | 2017 | Prof. Frank Neese (Max-Planck Institut for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany) | 
      
                                                                      | 2016 | Professor Ferdi Schüth  (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Mülheim, Germany) | 
      
                                                                      | 2015 | Ulrike  DIEBOLD (TU Wien, Austria) | 
      
                                                                      | 2014 | Christian AMATORE (CNRS France) | 
      
                                                                      | 2013 | J. Peter Toennies (Göttingen, Germany) | 
      
                                                                      | 2012 | Enrico Gratton (University of California, Irvine) | 
      
                                                                      | 2011 | Klaus Müllen (Max-Planck Institute, Mainz, Germany) | 
      
                                                                      | 2010 | Pavel Hobza (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the AS CR) | 
      
                                                                      | 2009 | Gabor A. Somorjai (University of California at Berkeley) | 
      
                                                                      | 2008 | Michael Graetzel (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) | 
      
                                                                      | 2007 | Harry B. Gray (California Institute of Technology, California, USA) | 
      
                                                                      | 2006 | Paul Crutzen (La Jolla, California) | 
      
                                                                      | 2005 | Avelino Corma (Valencia) | 
      
                                                                      | 2004 | R. A. Marcus (Pasadena, California) | 
      
                                                                      | 2003 | H. Schwarz (Berlin) | 
      
                                                                      | 2002 | J. M. Lehn (Paris) | 
      
                                                                      | 2001 | M. J. Molina (Cambridge, Massachusetts) | 
      
                                                                      | 2000 | A. T. Bell (Berkeley, California) | 
      
                                                                      | 1999 | H. F. Schaefer III (Athens, Georgia) | 
      
                                                                      | 1998 | G. B. Ellison (Boulder, Colorado) | 
      
                                                                      | 1997 | R. Parsons (Southampton) | 
      
                                                                      | 1996 | G. Ertl (Berlin) | 
      
                                                                      | 1995 | J. Michl (Boulder, Colorado) | 
      
                                                                      | 1994 | D. J. Schiffrin (Liverpool) | 
      
                                                                      | 1993 | J. Jortner (Tel Aviv) | 
      
                                                                      | 1992 | K. Klier (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) | 
      
                                                                      | 1991 | E. Heilbronner (Zurich) |