| Year | Award winner |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Professor Trevor Kincaid |
| 1940 | Professor Elizabeth Soule |
| 1941 | Dr. Temple Fay |
| 1944 | Eric A. Johnston |
| 1946 | Dr. Waldo L. Simon |
| 1947 | Dr. Edward Weber Allen |
| 1948 | Dr. Kenneth Collins |
| 1949 | Dr. Henry Schmitz |
| 1950 | Charles W. Harris |
| 1951 | Dr. Alfred S. Strauss |
| 1953 | Robert S. Macfarlane |
| 1954 | Welton D. Becket |
| 1955 | Carol M. Shanks |
| 1956 | William G. Newberg |
| 1957 | Clair L. Egtvedt |
| 1958 | Riley Harris Allen |
| 1959 | Samuel G. Baker |
| 1960 | Minoru Yamasaki |
| 1961 | Dr. Richard E. Fuller |
| 1962 | Dr. Frank L. Horsfall, Jr. |
| 1963 | Dr. James Gilluly |
| 1964 | Horace McCurdy |
| 1965 | Esther Raushenbush |
| 1966 | Dr. Neal Elgar Miller |
| 1967 | Dr. Bertram D. Thomas |
| 1968 | Dr. Paul Bruce Beeson |
| 1969 | Dr. George Joseph Stigler |
| 1970 | Edward E. Carlson |
| 1971 | Chester R. Huntley |
| 1972 | Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer |
| 1973 | Dr. Charles E. Odegaard |
| 1974 | Imogen Cunningham |
| 1975 | Edwin O. Guthman |
| 1976 | Angus Livingstone Bowmer |
| 1977 | Dr. Victor Scheffer |
| 1978 | John E. Steiner |
| 1979 | Dr. Dael Wolfe |
| 1980 | Dr. Arthur Anderson |
| 1982 | Dr. Robert Dahl |
| 1983 | Dr. William B. Hutchinson |
| 1984 | Professor George Tsutakawa |
| 1985 | George W. Jeffs |
| 1986 | Dr. George H. Hitchings |
| 1987 | Professor Emeritus Lauren Donaldson |
| 1988 | Dr. John D. Corbally |
| 1989 | Dr. George Kozmetsky |
| 1996 | Dr. Shirley Mahaley Malcom |
| 1997 | Chuck Close |
| 1998 | Dr. Martin Rodbell |
| 1999 | James R. Ellis |
| 2000 | Dr. Rita Colwell |
| 2001 | Joseph Sutter – Boeing |
| 2002 | Donald W. Baker |
| 2003 | Dr. William Elden Bolcom |
| 2004 | Dr. Bonnie Dunbar |
| 2005 | Jack Larsen |
| 2006 | Dr. Linda Buck |
| 2007 | The Honorable Daniel J. Evans |
| 2008 | Beverly Cleary |
| 2009 | Wayne Quinton |
| 2010 | Bruce Nordstrom |
| 2011 | Dr. Jane Lubchenco |
| 2012 | Steven M. Holl |
| 2013 | William H. Gates |
| 2014 | Arthur D. Levinson |
| 2015 | Norman D. Dicks |
| 2016 | Sally Jewell |
| 2017 | Norman B. Rice |
| 2018 | Orin C. Smith |
| 2019 | Dr. James G. Anderson |
| 2020 | Patty Hayes |
| 2021 | Larry Gossett |
| 2022 | Pam Cipriano |
| 2023 | Marilynne Robinson |
| 2024 | Art Wolfe |