 | 2005 Dr. Holmes Rolston, III University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University. |
 | 2004 Dr. Ralph Hirschmann Rao Makineni Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania. |
 | 2003 Dr. Janet Rowley Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor; Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago. |
 | 2002 Dr. Ruth Patrick Professor; The Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA. |
 | 2001 Dr. Michael E. DeBakey Physician - Surgeon; Chancellor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medecine, Houston, TX. |
 | 2000 Dr. Peter C. Doherty Professor and Chairman, Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. Nobel Laureate in Medecine (1996). |
 | 1999 Dr. Charles H. Townes Professor in the Graduate School, the University of California at Berkeley; Inventor of the maser and laser; Nobel Laureate in Physics (1964). |
 | 1998 Dr. Francis S. Collins Physician - Geneticist; Director, National Center for Human Genome Research |
 | 1997 Dr. Peter H. Raven Director, Missouri Botanical Garden; Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University. |
 | 1996 Dr. Maxine F. Singer President, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Scientist Emeritus, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. |
 | 1995 Dr. Victor A. McKusick Founder president of the Human Genome Organization; pioneer in bringing genetics into the mainstream of clinical medicine; University Professor of Medical Genetics at The Johns Hopkins University and Physician at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. |
 | 1993 Dr. Phillip A. Sharp Discoverer of RNA splicing; Salvadore E. Lauria Professor and Head, Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; former director of the Center for Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1993). |
 | 1968 Dr. Alfred M. Bongiovanni Specialist in glands and growth problems in children; Physician-in-Chief at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the William H. Bennett Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine , Philadelphia. |
 | 1965 Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel Pioneer in Cardiovascular Surgery, Professor of Surgery at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. |
 | 1963 Major Robert M. White, U.S.A.F. Pilot, X-15 Experimental Research Aircraft, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. |
 | 1961 Dr. James A. Shannon Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. |
 | 1960 Dr. William J. Thaler United States Navy Research Physicist. |
 | 1955 Dr. James B. Macelwane, S.J. Director of the Department of Geophysics at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo. |
 | 1954 Dr. Frank M. Piasecki President, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation, Philadelphia. |
 | 1946 Dr. John C. Hubbard Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
 | 1943 Dr. George Speri Sperti Director, Institutum Divi Thomae, Cincinnati, Ohio. |
 | 1942 Dr. Joseph A. Becker Research Physicist of Bell Telephone Laboratories. |
 | 1941 Dr. Eugene M. K. Geiling Professor of Pharmacology, University of Chicago. |
 | 1940 Dr. Petrus J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1936). |
 | 1939 Rev. John Montgomery Cooper, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. |
 | 1938 Dr. Thomas Parran Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. |
 | 1937 Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Paleontologist with the National Geological Survey of China. |
 | 1936 Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C. Professor of Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame. |
 | 1935 Dr. Francis Owen Rice Professor of Chemistry at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. |
 | 1934 Abbé Georges Lemaître, Ph.D., D.Sc. Professor of Astro-Physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. |
 | 1933 Dr. Hugh Stott Taylor, F.R.S.L. Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Princeton University. |
 | 1932 Dr. Francis P. Garvan President of the Chemical Foundation of America, New York. |
 | 1931 Dr. Karl F. Herzfeld Professor of Physics at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. |
 | 1930 Dr. Albert F. Zahm Pioneer in Aeronautics; Director of Aeronautical Research in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
 | 1929 Dr. John A. Kolmer Professor of Medicine at Temple University Medical School, Director, Research Institute of Cutaneous Medicine, Philadelphia. |
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