1958    Professor GW Beadle
1960    Professor CH Waddington, FRS
1962    Professor F Jacob, FRS
1965    Professor W Hayes, FRS
1966    Professor FHC Crick, FRS
1968    Professor M Delbrück
1970    Dr S Brenner, FRS
1972    Professor CD Darlington, FRS
1974    Professor D Lewis, FRS
1977    Professor C Auerbach, FRS
1979    Professor G Pontecorvo, FRS
1981    Sir W.F. Bodmer, FRS
1984    Professor A Robertson, FRS
1985    Professor J Maynard Smith, FRS
1987    Professor Sir AJ Jeffreys, FRS
1989    Professor P Slonimski
1991    Dr I Herskowitz
1992    Professor C Nüsslein-Volhard, FRS
1994    Professor S Benzer, FRS
1997    Dr Elliott Meyerowitz
1998    Professor C Weissman, FRS
1998    Professor Sir DA Hopwood, FRS
1999    Professor E Wieschaus
2000    Dr JD Watson, FRS
2001    Professor LH Hartwell
2002    Professor LL Cavalli-Sforza, FRS
2003    Dr MF Lyon, FRS
2004    Chris Somerville
2006    Professor Sir DJ Weatherall, FRS
2007    Professor H. Robert Horvitz
2008    Professor M Meselson
2009    Professor Wen-Hsiung Li
2010    Professor Susan Lindquist
2012    Professor Eric Lander