Recipients
Source: ESA
- 2022 Jianguo Liu
- 2021 Steward T. A. Pickett,
- 2020 Monica G. Turner,
- 2019 Robert Holt, [2]
- 2018 F. Stuart Chapin III, [3]
- 2017 Diana Harrison Wall,
- 2016 Jerry F. Franklin,
- 2015 Eric R. Pianka,
- 2014 Jane Lubchenco,
- 2013 William A. Reiners,
- 2012 Robert J. Naiman,
- 2011 Thomas G. Whitham,
- 2010 Simon A. Levin,
- 2009 Stephen P. Hubbell,
- 2008 Michael Rosenzweig,
- 2007 Otto Ludwig Lange,
- 2006 Daniel Simberloff,
- 2005 Lawrence B. Slobodkin,
- 2004 Samuel J. McNaughton,
- 2003 Richard B. Root,
- 2002 Charles J. Krebs,
- 2001 Paul R. Ehrlich,
- 2000 Robert Treat Paine,
- 1999 Crawford S. Holling,
- 1998 Gordon Orians,
- 1997 Frances C. James,
- 1996 Harold A. Mooney,
- 1995 Gene E. Likens and Frederick Herbert Bormann,
- 1994 Edward Osborne Wilson,
- 1993 Margaret Bryan Davis,
- 1992 Frank A. Pitelka,
- 1991 W. Dwight Billings and Nelson George Hairston,
- 1990 William Edwin Ricker,
- 1989 George C. Williams,
- 1988 Herbert Groves Andrewartha and Louis Charles Birch,
- 1987 Archie Carr,
- 1986 Evelyn C. Pielou,
- 1985 Joseph H. Connell,
- 1984 John L. Harper,
- 1983 Walles Thomas Edmondson,
- 1982 Edward Smith Deevey, Jr.,
- 1981 Robert H. Whittaker,
- 1980 Donald W. Tinkle,
- 1979 Rexford F. Daubenmire,
- 1978 Samuel Charles Kendeigh,
- 1977 Walter Byron McDougall,
- 1976 Alton Anthony Lindsey,
- 1975 Cornelius Herman Muller,
- 1974 Eugene Odum,
- 1973 Robert MacArthur,
- 1972 Ruth M. Patrick,
- 1971 Thomas Park,
- 1970 Murray Fife Buell,
- 1969 Stanley Adair Cain,
- 1968 Victor Ernest Shelford,
- 1967 Alfred Edwards Emerson,
- 1966 Alfred C. Redfield,
- 1965 Paul Bigelow Sears,
- 1964 Lee Raymond Dice,
- 1963 William Skinner Cooper,
- 1962 G. Evelyn Hutchinson,
- 1961 Charles S. Elton,
- 1960 Walter Pace Cottam,
- 1959 Henry Allen Gleason,
- 1958 Arthur William Sampson,
- 1957 Karl Patterson Schmidt,
- 1956 George Burton Rigg,
- 1955 Albert Hazen Wright,
- 1954 Henry Shoemaker Conard,