| Year |
Awardee |
Domain of research |
| 1984 |
Jürg Fröhlich |
Mathematical physics: quantum theory |
| 1985 |
Otto Albrecht Haller |
Virology: resistance to flu viruses |
| 1986 |
Ulrich Kohli |
Economics: analysis of international trade |
| 1987 |
John Paul Maier |
Physical chemistry: spectroscopic methods for analysing the properties of ionised molecules |
| 1988 |
Paul Schmid-Hempel (de) |
Behavioural ecology |
| 1989 |
Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont (de) |
Social psychology and educational sciences |
| 1990 |
Goeffrey Bodenhausen |
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| 1991 |
Susan Margaret Gasser-Wilson (de) |
Cell biology: the role of nucleus proteins in organising and passing on genetic information |
| 1992 |
Maria Christina Pitassi |
History of theology and philosophy in the 17th and 18th century |
| 1993 |
Thomas Stocker |
Climate and environmental physics: the role of the oceans in climate change |
| 1994 |
Denis Duboule |
Developmental biology and genetics |
| 1995 |
Astrid Epiney |
Human rights and international environmental law |
| 1996 |
Martin Vetterli |
Audiovisual technology of the future: wavelet theory in communication |
| 1997 |
Konrad Basler (de) |
Zoology/developmental biology (drosophila fly) |
| 1998 |
Peter Schaber |
Ethics, applied ethics and environmental ethics |
| 1999 |
Frédéric Merkt (de) |
Chemical physics of molecules: spectroscopie and dynamics of atoms and molecules in electronically charged states |
| 2000 |
Laurent Keller |
Evolutionary ecology: ant behaviour |
| 2001 |
Lorenza Mondada (de) |
Interactional linguistics |
| 2002 |
Jérôme Faist |
Solid state physics: quantum cascade laser |
| 2003 |
Silvia Arber |
Neurobiology: neuronal circuit formation in the developing spinal cord |
| 2004 |
Simon Gächter |
Empirical economics: cooperative behaviour |
| 2005 |
Patrick Jenny |
Engineering sciences: computer simulations of complex fluid systems in nature and technology |
| 2006 |
Michael Hengartner |
Molecular biology: study of a model organism, a worm called Caenorhabditis elegans |
| 2007 |
Giuliano Bonoli |
Political science: role of the welfare state in Europe |
| 2008 |
Franz Pfeiffer |
X-ray technology |
| 2009 |
Mirjam Christ Crain |
Medicine: biological stress caused by infectious diseases |
| 2010 |
Marianne Sommer (de) |
History of science: exploring the life sciences |
| 2011 |
Karl Gademann |
Chemistry and biology: isolation and synthesis of natural materials |
| 2012 |
Jacques Fellay |
Genomics: defence mechanisms against viruses |
| 2013 |
David Sander (de) |
Affective science |
| 2014 |
Tobias J. Kippenberg (de) |
Physics: quantum optomechanics |
| 2015 |
Richard Benton |
Neurobiology of olfaction |
| 2016 |
Alexander Keese (de) |
African history, decolonisation, forced labour |
| 2017 |
Xile Hu |
Chemical catalysis |
| 2018 |
Andrea Ablasser |
Immunology |
| 2019 |
Dominik Hangartner |
Political scientist |
| 2020 |
Maryna Viazovska |
Mathematics |
| 2021 |
Nicola Aceto |
Molecular oncology |
| 2022 |
Kerstin Vokinger (de) |
Law, medicine and technology |
| 2023 |
Lesya Shchutska |
Physics: particle physics |
| 2024 |
Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis |
Deep learning for neuroscience |