- 1984 Shoemaker, Eugene M.
- 1985 Dietz, Robert S.
- 1986 Gault, Donald E.
- 1987 Engelhardt, Wolf J. von
- 1988 Dence, Michael R.
- 1989 Barnes, Virgil E.
- 1990 Grieve, Richard A. F.
- 1991 Masaitis, Victor
- 1992 Chao, Edward C. T.
- 1993 Stöffler, Dieter
- 1994 Roddy, David W.
- 1995 Cassidy, William A.
- 1996 Hörz, Friedrich
- 1997 Ahrens, Thomas J.
- 1998 Ivanov, Boris A.
- 1999 Melosh, H. Jay
- 2000 Baldwin, Ralph B.
- 2001 Basilevsky, Alexander T.
- 2002 French, Bevan M.
- 2003 Ryder, Graham
- 2004 Schulz, Peter H.
- 2005 Glass, Billy P.
- 2006 Schmidt, Robert M.
- 2007 Koeberl, Christian
- 2008 Kyte, Frank T.
- 2009 Reimold, Uwe
- 2010 Hartmann, William
- 2011 Bohor, Bruce F.
- 2012 Smit, Jan
- 2013 Alvarez, Walter
- 2014 Deutsch, Alexander
- 2015 Artemieva, Natalia
- 2016 Holsapple, Keith
- 2017 Fujiwara, Akira
- 2018 Kenkman, Thomas
- 2019 Cintala, Mark
- 2020 Joanna Morgan
- 2021 Osinski, Gordon
- 2022 Collins, Gareth & Wünnemann, Kai