Winners
| Year | Category | Image | Laureate | Nationality | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Mathematics | Vladimir Arnold | Soviet Union | Theory of non-linear differential equations | |
| Louis Nirenberg | United States | ||||
| 1983 | Geosciences | Edward Lorenz | United States | Geophysical hydrodynamics | |
| — | Henry Stommel | United States | |||
| 1984 | Biosciences | Daniel H. Janzen | United States | Co-evolution | |
| 1985 | Astronomy | Lyman Spitzer | United States | Studies of the interstellar medium | |
| 1986 | Geosciences | — | Claude Allègre | France | Isotope geochemical relations |
| — | Gerald J. Wasserburg | United States | |||
| 1987 | Biosciences | — | Eugene P. Odum | United States | Ecosystem ecology |
| Howard T. Odum | United States | ||||
| 1988 | Mathematics | Pierre Deligne | Belgium United States |
Algebraic geometry | |
| Alexander Grothendieck | None | ||||
| 1989 | Geosciences | James Van Allen | United States | Exploration of space, the discovery the Van Allen belts | |
| 1990 | Biosciences | Paul R. Ehrlich | United States | Dynamics and genetics of fragmented populations | |
| Edward Osborne Wilson | United States | Theory of island biogeography | |||
| 1991 | Astronomy | Allan Rex Sandage | United States | Study of galaxies | |
| 1992 | Geosciences | — | Adolf Seilacher | Germany | Research into evolution of life |
| 1993 | Biosciences | W. D. Hamilton | United Kingdom | Theories of kin selection and genetic relationship | |
| Seymour Benzer | United States | Genetical and neurophysiological studies of fruit flies | |||
| 1994 | Mathematics | — | Simon Donaldson | United Kingdom | Four-dimensional geometry |
| Shing-Tung Yau | United States | Non-linear techniques in differential geometry | |||
| 1995 | Geosciences | — | Willi Dansgaard | Denmark | Development of isotope geological analysis methods |
| Nicholas Shackleton | United Kingdom | ||||
| 1996 | Biosciences | Robert M. May | Australia | Ecological research | |
| 1997 | Astronomy | Fred Hoyle | United Kingdom | Study of nuclear processes in stars, stellar evolution | |
| — | Edwin Salpeter | United States | |||
| 1998 | Geosciences | — | Don L. Anderson | United States | Study of the structures and processes in the interior of the Earth |
| — | Adam M. Dziewonski | United States | |||
| 1999 | Biosciences | Ernst Mayr | United States | Developing the concept of evolutionary biology | |
| — | John Maynard Smith | United Kingdom | |||
| George C. Williams | United States | ||||
| 2000 | Polyarthritis | — | Marc Feldmann | United Kingdom | Definition of TNF-alpha |
| — | Ravinder N. Maini | United Kingdom | |||
| 2001 | Mathematics | Alain Connes | France | Theory of operator algebras, founder of the non-commutative geometry | |
| 2002 | Geosciences | — | Dan P. McKenzie | United Kingdom | Dynamics of the lithosphere |
| 2003 | Biosciences | — | Carl Woese | United States | Third domain of life |
| 2004 | Polyarthritis | — | Eugene C. Butcher | United States | Study of molecular mechanisms concerning white blood cells |
| — | Timothy A. Springer | United States | |||
| 2005 | Astronomy | — | James E. Gunn | United States | Understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe |
| — | James Peebles | United States | |||
| Martin Rees | United Kingdom | ||||
| 2006 | Geosciences | — | Wallace S. Broecker | United States | Research into the global carbon cycle |
| 2007 | Biosciences | — | Robert Trivers | United States | Analysis of social evolution |
| 2008 | Astronomy | Rashid Alievich Sunyaev | Russia | Contributions to high-energy astrophysics and cosmology | |
| Mathematics | Maxim Kontsevich | Russia | Contributions to mathematics from modern theoretical physics | ||
| Edward Witten | United States | ||||
| 2009 | Polyarthritis | Charles Dinarello | United States | Isolation of interleukins, understanding their role in the onset of inflammatory diseases | |
| Tadamitsu Kishimoto | Japan | ||||
| Toshio Hirano | Japan | ||||
| 2010 | Geosciences | Walter Munk | United States | “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding of ocean circulation, tides and waves, and their role in the Earth’s dynamics”. | |
| 2011 | Biosciences | Ilkka Hanski | Finland | “for his pioneering studies on how spatial variation affects the dynamics of animal and plant populations”. | |
| 2012 | Astronomy | — | Reinhard Genzel | Germany | "for their observations of the stars orbiting the galactic centre, indicating the presence of a supermassive black hole". |
| — | Andrea M. Ghez | United States | |||
| Mathematics | — | Jean Bourgain | Belgium | “for their brilliant and groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, ergodic theory, number theory, combinatorics, functional analysis and theoretical computer science". | |
| Terence Tao | Australia United States |
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