| 1969 | The Study of Macromolecules by Fluorescence Methods
Gregorio Weber |
| 1970 |
Phycomyces, Work in Progress
Max Delbruck |
| 1971 |
Inhibitory Interaction in the Retina of Limulus
H. K. Hartline |
| 1972 |
Mapping Active Sites of Enzymes by Magnetic Resonance Methods
Mildred Cohn |
| 1973 |
The Structure and Biosynthesis of Closed Circular DNA
Jerome Vinograd |
| 1974 |
Mapping Genetic Sequences by Electron Microscopy
Norman Davidson |
| 1975 |
The Molecular Biology of Brain Cell Interactions
Francis O. Schmitt |
| 1976 |
Actomyosin ATPase and the Mechanism of Muscle Contraction
Edwin W. Taylor |
| 1977 |
Neurogenetics of Behavior in Drosophila
Seymour Benzer |
| 1978 |
Astronomy and Biology: Some Connections
Carl Sagan |
| 1979 |
The Golden Age of Cell Biology: Its Origins and Its Future
Keith Porter |
| 1980 |
Science and the American Future
Philip Handler |
| 1981 |
Structure and Motion in Proteins
Frederic M. Richards |
| 1982 |
Cell Adhesion Molecules
Gerald M. Edelman |
| 1983 |
Bacterial Photosynthesis
George Feher |
| 1984 |
Mechanisms of Protein Integration into Membranes
Günter Blobel |
| 1985 |
Switching in Protein Assemblies
Donald L. D. Caspar |
| 1986 |
Leeuwenhoek, Huygens, and the Future of Biophysics
Shinya Inoue |
| 1987 |
Light and Life
Lubert Stryer |
| 1988 |
Electrophoresis of DNA
Bruno Zimm |
| 1989 |
Exploring How Viruses Initiate Infections and How the Immune System Responds
Using Molecular Biophysics
Don C. Wiley |
| 1990 |
Molecular Tools to Elucidate Problems in Excitation-Contraction Coupling
David H. MacLennan |
| 1991 |
Molecular Dynamics: Its Role in Biophysics
Martin Karplus |
| 1992 |
Looking at Proteins
Jane S. Richardson |
| 1993 |
Recognition of DNA by Zinc-Finger and Other Proteins Involved in the Regulation of
Gene Expression
Aaron Klug |
| 1994 |
Flexing and Folding the DNA Double Helix
Wilma K. Olson |
| 1995 |
Mechanism of Action of a Molecular Motor
James A. Spudich |
| 1996 |
Protein Folding: A Very Simple Perspective
Ken A. Dill |
| 1997 |
Diphtheria Toxin and Domain Swapping: A Strange Biophysical Tail
David Eisenberg |
| 1998 |
The Structural Basis of Protein Folding and Misfolding
Christopher M. Dobson |
| 1999 |
Protein Folding and Human Disease
Jeffery W. Kelly |
| 2000 |
Structure and Dynamics of Camp-dependent Protein Kinase
Susan Taylor |
| 2001 |
Structure Isn’t Everything But It Sure Helps
Brian W. Matthews |
| 2002 |
Multiphoton Imaging the Molecular Dynamics of Living
Watt W. Webb |
| 2003 |
From Protein Structure to Biological Function and Evolution
Janet Thornton |
| 2004 |
Atomic Basis of Ion Channel Function
Roderick MacKinnon |
| 2005 |
Cryo-Electron Microscopy of the Ribosome: Glimpses of a Molecular Machine in Motion
Joachim Frank |
| 2006 |
Probing Nature’s Nanoscale Machines with Microscale Probes
Kazuhiko Kinosita, Jr. |
| 2007 |
Ion Pumping by Ca-ATPase of the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum – A Structural View
Chikashi Toyoshima |
| 2008 |
The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription
Roger Kornberg |
| 2009 |
Proteins in Action: Dynamics during Catalysis and Signaling
Dorothee Kern |
| 2010 |
Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells in Health and Disease
Roger Tsien |
| 2011 |
Chaperonin-Mediated Protein Folding
Arthur L. Horwich |
| 2012 |
Shedding Light on Single Molecules
Steven M. Block |
| 2013 | The Making and Breaking of Nucleosomes
Karolin Luger |
| 2014 | A Journey Through Cellular Processes: One Molecule at a Time
Carlos Bustamante |
| 2015 | Discoveries in Biophysics Through the Computational Microscope
Klaus Schulten |