| 2025         | 
                                                                      Prof. Jonas C. Peters: Fe-mediated N2-fixation and lessons for Mo - Bridging catalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis          | 
          
      
                                                                      | 2024         | 
                                                                      Edward I. Solomon          | 
          
      
                                                                      | 2023         | 
                                                                      Prof. Philipp Kukura          | 
          
      
                                                                      | 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)          |