1902: Joseph John Thomson  1903: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf  1904: Joseph Wilson Swan  1905: Augusto Righi  1906: Hertha Marks Ayrton  1907: Ernest Howard Griffiths  1908: Eugen Goldstein  1909: Richard Glazebrook  1910: John Ambrose Fleming  1911: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson  1912: William Duddell  1913: Alexander Graham Bell  1914: John Sealy Townsend  1915: Paul Langevin  1916: Elihu Thomson  1917: Charles Glover Barkla  1918: Irving Langmuir  1919: Charles Chree  1920: Owen Willans Richardson  1921: Niels Bohr  1922: Francis William Aston  1923: Robert Andrews Millikan  1924: -   1925: Frank Edward Smith  1926: Henry Jackson  1927: William Coolidge  1928: Maurice de Broglie  1929: Hans Geiger  1930: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman  1931: William Lawrence Bragg  1932: James Chadwick  1933:  Edward Appleton  1934: Karl Siegbahn  1935: Clinton Davisson  1936: Walter H. Schottky  1937: Ernest Lawrence  1938: John Cockcroft e Ernest Walton  1939: George Paget Thomson  1940: Arthur Holly Compton  1941: Nevill Francis Mott  1942: Enrico Fermi  1943: Marcus Oliphant  1944: George Finch  1945: Basil Schonland  1946: John Randall  1947: Frédéric Joliot-Curie  1948: Robert Watson-Watt  1949: Cecil Powell  1950: Max Born  1951: Hendrik Anthony Kramers  1952: Philip Dee  1953: Edward Crisp Bullard  1954: Martin Ryle  1955: Harrie Massey  1956: Frederick Lindemann  1957: Joseph Proudman  1958: Edward Andrade  1959: Brian Pippard  1960: Joseph Pawsey  1961: Alan Cottrell  1962: Brebis Bleaney  1963: Frederic Williams  1964: Abdus Salam  1965: Denys Wilkinson  1966: Nicholas Kemmer  1967: Kurt Mendelssohn  1968: Freeman Dyson  1969: Nicholas Kurti  1970: David Bates  1971: Robert Hanbury Brown  1972: Brian David Josephson  1973: Peter Hirsch  1974: Peter Fowler  1975: Richard Dalitz  1976: Stephen Hawking  1977: Antony Hewish  1978: William Gemmell Cochran  1979: Robert Joseph Paton Williams  1980: Francis Farley  1981: Peter Higgs, Thomas Walter e Bannerman Kibble  1982: Drummond Matthews e Frederick Vine  1983: John Ward  1984: Roy Kerr  1985: Tony Skyrme  1986: Michael Woolfson  1987: Michael Pepper  1988: Archibald Howie e M.J. Whelan  1989: John Stewart Bell  1990: Thomas George Cowling  1991: Philip Moon  1992: Michael Seaton  1993: George Isaak  1994: Robert G. Chambers  1995: David Shoenberg  1996: Amyand Buckingham  1997: Andrew Lang  1998: Raymond Hide  1999: Alexander Boksenberg  2000: Chintamani Rao  2001: John Pethica  2002: Alexander Dalgarno  2003: Peter Edwards  2004: John Clarke  2005: Keith Moffatt  2006: Michael Kelly  2007: Artur Ekert  2008: Michele Dougherty