Laureates
| Year | Name | Nationality | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | George F. Sprague | United States | for his outstanding research on the genetic amelioration of maize for human welfare. |
| John Charles Walker | United States | for his research in plant pathology, developing of disease-resistant varieties of major food plants. | |
| 1979 | Jay L. Lush | United States | for his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the application of genetics to livestock improvement; |
| Kenneth Blaxter | United Kingdom | for his fundamental contributions to the science and practice of ruminant nutrition and livestock production. | |
| 1980 | Karl Maramorosch | Poland / United States | for his pioneering and wide-ranging studies on interactions between insects and disease agents in plants. |
| 1981 | John O. Almquist | United States | for his significant contributions to the application of artificial insemination to livestock improvement. |
| Henry A. Lardy | United States | for his pioneering research on storage and preservation of spermatozoa thus enabling artificial insemination to become a universal practice. | |
| Glenn W. Salisbury | United States | for his outstanding achievements in basic and applied research on artificial insemination. | |
| 1982 | Wendell L. Roelofs | United States | for his fundamental chemical and biological research on pheromones and their practical use in insect control. |
| 1983/4 | Don Kirkham Cornelis T. de Wit |
United States Netherlands |
for their innovative contributions to the quantitative understanding of soil-water and other environmental interactions influencing crop growth and yield. |
| 1984/5 | Robert H. Burris | United States | for his pioneering fundamental research on the mechanisms of biological nitrogen fixation and its application in crop production. |
| 1986 | Ralph Riley Ernest R. Sears |
United Kingdom United States |
for their fundamental research in cytogenetics of wheat, providing the basis for genetic improvement of cereal grains. |
| 1987 | Theodor O. Diener | United States | for his discovery and pioneering fundamental research on viroids and his applied work on viroid detection in crops. |
| 1988 | Charles Thibault Ernest John Christopher Polge |
France; United Kingdom |
for pioneering work in reproductive physiology including cell preservation, fertilization processes, egg biology and embryo manipulations for domestic animal improvement. |
| 1989 | Peter M. Biggs Michael Elliott |
United Kingdom United Kingdom |
for distinguished contributions to basic science and its successful translation into practice in the fields of animal health and crop protection. |
| 1990 | Jozef Stefaan Schell | Belgium | for his pioneering work in genetic transformation of plants, thereby opening up new horizons in basic plant science and breeding. |
| 1991 | Shang Fa Yang | Taiwan / United States | for his remarkable contributions to the understanding of the mechanism of biosynthesis, mode of action and applications of the plant hormone, Ethylene. |
| 1992 | No award | ||
| 1993 | John E. Casida | United States | for his pioneering studies on the mode of action of insecticides, design of safer pesticides and contributions to the understanding of nerve and muscle function in insects. |
| 1994/5 | Carl B. Huffaker Perry L. Adkisson |
United States United States |
for their contributions to the development and implementation of environmentally beneficial integrated pest management systems for the protection of agricultural crops. |
| 1995/6 | Morris Schnitzer Frank J. Stevenson |
Canada United States |
for their pioneering contributions to our understanding of the chemistry of soil organic matter and its application to agriculture. |
| 1996/7 | Neal L. First | United States | for his pioneering research in the reproductive biology of livestock. |
| 1998 | Ilan Chet Baldur R. Stefansson |
Israel Canada |
for their contributions to the environmentally safe development of world agriculture through innovative approaches in breeding and bio-control. |
| 1999 | No award | ||
| 2000 | Gurdev Khush | India | for his extraordinary contribution to theoretical research in plant genetics, evolution and breeding especially of rice, with regard to food production and alleviation of hunger. |
| 2001 | Roger N. Beachy James E. Womack |
United States United States |
for the use of recombinant DNA technology, to revolutionize plant and animal sciences, paving the way for applications to neighboring fields. |
| 2002/3 | R. Michael Roberts Fuller W. Bazer |
United Kingdom / United States; United States |
for discoveries of Interferon tau and other pregnancy-associated proteins, which clarified the biological mystery of signaling between embryo and mother to maintain pregnancy, with profound effects on the efficiency of animal production systems, as well as human health and well-being. |
| 2004 | Yuan Longping Steven D. Tanksley |
China United States |
for innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple. |
| 2005 | No award | ||
| 2006/7 | Ronald L. Phillips Michel A. J. Georges |
United States Belgium |
for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences. |
| 2008 | John A. Pickett James H. Tumlinson W. Joe Lewis |
United Kingdom United States United States |
for their remarkable discoveries of mechanisms governing plant-insect and plant-plant interactions. Their scientific contributions on chemical ecology have fostered the development of integrated pest management and significantly advanced agricultural sustainability. |
| 2009 | No award | ||
| 2010 | David Baulcombe | United Kingdom | for his pioneering discovery of gene regulation by small inhibitory RNA molecules in plants, which is of profound importance not only for agriculture, but also for biology as a whole, including the field of medicine. |
| 2011 | Harris A. Lewin | United States | for highly significant discoveries, that contribute to both fundamental and practical aspects of animal agriculture. |
| James R. Cook | United States | for seminal discoveries in plant pathology and soil microbiology that impact crop productivity and disease management. | |
| 2012 | No award |
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