| 2002 |
Sydney Brenner, H Robert Horvitz, John E Sulston |
| 2001 |
Leland H Hartwell, R Timothy Hunt, Sir Paul M Nurse |
| 2000 |
Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric Kandel |
| 1999 |
Gunter Blobel |
| 1998 |
Robert F Furchgott, Louis J Ignarro, Ferid Murad |
| 1997 |
Stanley B Prusiner |
| 1996 |
Peter C Doherty, Rolf M Zinkernagel |
| 1995 |
Edward B Lewis, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Eric F Wieschaus |
| 1994 |
Alfred G Gilman, Martin Rodbell |
| 1993 |
Richard J Roberts, Phillip A Sharp |
| 1992 |
Edmond H Fischer, Edwin G Krebs |
| 1991 |
Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann |
| 1990 |
Joseph E Murray, E Donnall Thomas |
| 1989 |
J Michael Bishop, Harold E Varmus |
| 1988 |
Sir James W Black, Gertrude B Elion, George H Hitchings |
| 1987 |
Susumu Tonegawa |
| 1986 |
Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini |
| 1985 |
Joseph L Goldstein, Michael S Brown |
| 1984 |
Niels K Jerne, Georges J F Kohler, Cesar Milstein |
| 1983 |
Barbara McClintock |
| 1982 |
Sune K Bergstrom, Bengt I Samuelsson, Sir John R Vane |
| 1981 |
Roger W Sperry, David H Hubei, Torsten N Wiesel |
| 1980 |
Baruj Benacerraf, George D Snell, Jean Dausset |
| 1979 |
Allan M Cormack, Sir Godfrey N Hounsfield |
| 1978 |
Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O Smith |
| 1977 |
Roger Guillemin, Andrew V Schally, Rosalyn Yalow |
| 1976 |
Baruch S Blumberg, D Carleton Gajdusek |
| 1975 |
David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin |
| 1974 |
Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E Palade |
| 1973 |
Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen |
| 1972 |
Gerald M Edelman, Rodney R Porter |
| 1971 |
Earl W Sutherland, Jr |
| 1970 |
Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod |
| 1969 |
Max Delbruck, Alfred D Hershey, Salvador E Luria |
| 1968 |
Robert W Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W Nirenberg |
| 1967 |
Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald |
| 1966 |
Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins |
| 1965 |
Francois Jacob, Andre Lwoff, Jacques Monod |
| 1964 |
Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen |
| 1963 |
Sir John Carew Eccles, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley |
| 1962 |
Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins |
| 1961 |
Georg von Bekesy |
| 1960 |
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Peter Brian Medawar |
| 1959 |
Arthur Kornberg, Severo Ochoa |
| 1958 |
George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg |
| 1957 |
Daniel Bovet |
| 1956 |
Andre Frederic Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W Richards |
| 1955 |
Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell |
| 1954 |
John Franklin Enders, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Thomas Huckle Weller |
| 1953 |
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann |
| 1952 |
Selman Abraham Waksman |
| 1951 |
Max Theiler |
| 1950 |
Philip Showalter Hench, Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein |
| 1949 |
Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Caetano deAbreu Freire Egas Moniz |
| 1948 |
Paul Hermann Muller |
| 1947 |
Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Theresa Cori, Bernardo Alberto Houssay |
| 1946 |
Hermann Joseph Muller |
| 1945 |
Sir Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Alexander Fleming, Lord Howard Walter Florey |
| 1944 |
Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser |
| 1943 |
Henrik Carl Peter Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy |
| 1942 |
No award |
| 1941 |
No award |
| 1940 |
No award |
| 1939 |
Gerhard Domagk |
| 1938 |
Corneille Jean Francois Heymans |
| 1937 |
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi |
| 1936 |
Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi |
| 1935 |
Hans Spemann |