2019:  Geoffrey Bodenhausen and Christian Griesinger
Pioneering Solution NMR Experiments

2018:  Gerhard Wagner
Impact of NMR in Mechanistic Biology

2017:  Bernd Reif and Kurt Zilm
1H Detected MAS Experiments on Proteins

2016:  Robert S. Balaban and Peter van Zijl
Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) Magnetic Resonance Imaging

2015:  Arthur G. Palmer III
Innovative and elegant solution NMR studies of protein dynamics and thermodynamics, and seminal contributions to elucidating molecular motions on time scales that span several orders of magnitude.

2014:  Marc Baldus, Mei Hong, Ann McDermott, Beat H. Meier, Harmut Oschkinat, and Robert Tycko
Development and advances in solid state NMR

2013:  Clare Grey
Innovative applications of solid-state NMR to energy storage systems, especially lithium ion batteries

2012:  Klaes Golman and Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen
Conception, development, and application of dissolution-DNP NMR

2011:  Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, and John Sidles
Conception, implementation and application of Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM)

2010:  Paul T. Callaghan
Contributions to the study of polymeric and heterogeneous materials by advanced NMR exchange, diffusion and relaxation techniques, and for his innovative q-space-diffusion-related developments that were relevant in the context of the development of diffusion-tensor imaging.

2009:  Daniel P. Weitekamp
PASADENA method that enhances sensitivity and BOOMERANG which significantly improves NMR force detection by circumventing the problems of inhomogeneous magnetic fields.