| Year |
Name |
Institution |
| 2009 |
Swift
Mission Team |
NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland |
| 2008 |
Joss
Bland-Hawthorn
|
School
of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia |
Karl
Glazebrook
|
Swinburne
University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
Jean-Charles
Cuillandre
|
Canada-France-Hawaii
Telescope Corporation, Kamuela, Hawaii |
| 2007 |
Harold
A. McAlister |
Georgia
State University & the CHARA Array Project |
| 2006 |
Michael
Skrutskie and the 2MASS Team |
University
of Virginia |
| 2005 |
Robert
Lupton |
Princeton
University |
| 2004 |
John
H. Lacy |
University
of Texas at Austin |
| 2003 |
Rodger
Thompson and the NICMOS Instrument Definition Team |
University
of Arizona |
| 2002 |
François
Roddier |
Institute
for Astronomy, University of Hawaii |
| 2001 |
Keith
Taylor |
California
Institute of Technology |
| 2000 |
Peter
B. Stetson |
NRC-CNRC |
| 1999 |
Barry
Lasker (posthumous) |
STScI |
| 1998 |
Samuel
C. Barden |
NOAO-Kitt
Peak Nat'l Observatory |
| 1997 |
R.
Edward Nather |
University
of Texas, Austin |
| 1996 |
Robert
Tull |
McDonald
Observatory |
| 1995 |
Steven
Vogt |
University
of California, Santa Cruz |