Major Award Winners
The Gaede-Langmuir Award is given in alternate years.
Since 1995, the John A. Thornton Memorial Award is given in alternate years.
Citations are given in separate listings for the individual awards.
| Year | Medard W. Welch | Gaede-Langmuir | Albert Nerken | John A. Thornton | Peter Mark |
| 1970 | Erwin W. Mueller | ||||
| 1971 | Gottfried K. Wehner | ||||
| 1972 | Kenneth C.D. Hickman | ||||
| 1973 | Lawrence A. Harris | ||||
| 1974 | Homer D. Hagstrum | ||||
| 1975 | Paul A. Redhead | ||||
| 1976 | Leslie Holland | ||||
| 1977 | Charles B. Duke | ||||
| 1978 | Georg H. Hass | Pierre V. Auger | |||
| 1979 | Gert Ehrlich | ||||
| 1980 | Daniel Alpert | Christopher R. Brundle | |||
| 1981 | Harrison E. Farnsworth | Lawrence L. Kazmerski | |||
| 1982 | Alfred H. Sommer | Charles W. Magee | |||
| 1983 | H.H. Wieder | D. James Chadi | |||
| 1984 | William E. Spicer | Alfred Benninghoven | Barbara J. Garrison | ||
| 1985 | Theodore E. Madey | John L. Vossen | Franz J. Himpsel | ||
| 1986 | Harald Ibach | Rointan F. Bunshah | Donald J. Santeler | Richard A. Gottscho | |
| 1987 | Mark J. Cardillo | Marsbed Hablanian | Raymond T. Tung | ||
| 1988 | Peter Sigmund | Alfred Y. Cho, John R. Arthur, Jr. | Stanley L. Milora | Jerry Tersoff | |
| 1989 | Robert Gomer | Martin P. Seah, Charles D. Wagner | Eric Kay | Randall W. Feenstra | |
| 1990 | Jerry M. Woodall | Francois M. d’Heurie | J. Peter Hobson | Maurice H. Francombe | Stephen M. Rossnagel |
| 1991 | Max G. Lagally | Harold R. Kaufman | Joseph E. Greene | William J. Kaiser | |
| 1992 | Ernst Bauer | Russell D. Young | Paolo della Porta | Thomas R. Anthony | |
| 1993 | George Comsa | John F. O’Hanion | John W. Coburn, Harold F. Winters | Robert J. Hamera | |
| 1994 | John T. Yates, Jr. | Robert J. Celotta, Daniel T. Pierce | Hajime Ishimaru | David A. Hoffman | Marjorie Olmstead |
| 1995 | Gerhard Ertl | Donald M Mattox | Jan-Eric Sundgren | Emily Carter | |
| 1996 | Peter J. Fiebelman | Gerald J. Lapeyre | William R. Wheeler | Brian E Bent | |
| 1997 | Phaedon Avouris | John C. Helmer | James M.E. Harper | Brian S. Swartzentruber | |
| 1998 | David E. Aspnes | Paul W. Palmberg | Peter J. Clarke | David G. Cahill | |
| 1999 | John H. Weaver | Paul H. Holloway | Timothy J. Coutts | Eray S. Aydil | |
| 2000 | D. Phillip Woodruff | Gary W. Rubloff | John T. Grant | Stacey F. Bent | |
| 2001 | Ward Plummer | Cedric Powell | Samuel D Bader | Eli Rotenberg | |
| 2002 | Buddy D. Ratner | Christoforo Benvenuti | David J. Harra | Rachel S. Goldman | |
| 2003 | Matthias Scheffler | Peter B. Barna | William D Sproul | Charles H Ahn |