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== 2000s ==
2000
Ilkka Hanski (Finland) --- Ecological sciences
Martin Litchfield West (United Kingdom) --- Classical antiquity
Michael Stolleis (Germany) --- Legal history since 1500
Michel G.E. Mayor (Switzerland) --- Instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics
Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2001
Claude Lorius (France) --- Climatology
James Sloss Ackerman (United States) --- History of architecture (including town planning and landscape design)
Jean-Pierre Changeux (France) --- Cognitive neurosciences
Marc Fumaroli (France) --- Literary history and criticism (post 1500)
2002
Anthony Grafton (United States) --- History of the humanities
Dominique Schnapper (France) --- Sociology
Walter J. Gehring (Switzerland) --- Developmental biology
Xavier Le Pichon (France) --- Geology
2003
Eric Hobsbawm (United Kingdom) --- European history since 1900
Reinhard Genzel (Germany) --- Infrared astronomy
Serge Moscovici (France) --- Social psychology
Wen-Hsiung Li (Taiwan / United States) --- Genetics and evolution
2004
Andrew Colin Renfrew (United Kingdom) --- Prehistoric Archaeology
Michael Marmot (United Kingdom) --- Epidemiology
Nikki R. Keddie (United States) --- The Islamic world from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century
Pierre Deligne (Belgium) --- Mathematics
Community of Sant'Egidio --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2005
Lothar Ledderose (Germany) --- History of the art of Asia
Peter Hall (United Kingdom) --- The social and cultural history of cities since the beginning of the 16th century
Peter R. Grant (United Kingdom) and Rosemary Grant (United States) --- Population biology
Russell J. Hemley (United States) and Ho-kwang (David) Mao (China) --- Mineral physics
2006
Ludwig Finscher (Germany) --- History of western music since 1600
Quentin Skinner (United Kingdom) --- Political thought: history and theory
Andrew Lange (United States) and Paolo de Bernardis (Italy) --- Observational astronomy and astrophysics
Elliott M. Meyerowitz (United States) and Christopher R. Somerville (Canada) --- Plant molecular genetics
2007
Sumio Iijima (Japan) --- Nanoscience
Bruce A. Beutler (United States) and Jules A. Hoffmann (France) --- Innate Immunity
Michel Zink (France) --- European Literature (1000–1500)
Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom) --- International Law since 1945
Karlheinz Böhm (Austria) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2008
Maurizio Calvesi (Italy) --- The Visual Arts since 1700
Thomas Nagel (Serbia / United States) --- Moral Philosophy
Ian H. Frazer (Australia) --- Preventive Medicine, including Vaccination
Wallace S. Broecker (United States) --- Science of Climate Change
2009
Terence Cave (United Kingdom) --- Literature since 1500
Michael Grätzel (Germany / Switzerland) --- Science of New Materials
Brenda Milner (United Kingdom / Canada) --- Cognitive Neurosciences
Paolo Rossi Monti (Italy) --- History of Science

== 2010s ==
2010
Manfred Brauneck (Germany) --- History of theatre in all its aspects
Carlo Ginzburg (Italy) --- European History (1400–1700)
Jacob Palis (Brazil) --- Mathematics (pure or applied)
Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) --- Stem Cells: Biology and potential applications
2011
Peter Brown (Ireland) --- Ancient History (The Graeco-Roman World)
Bronislaw Baczko (Poland) --- Enlightenment Studies
Russell Scott Lande (United States / United Kingdom) --- Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics
Joseph Ivor Silk (United States / United Kingdom) --- The Early Universe (From the Planck Time to the First Galaxies)
2012
Ronald Dworkin (United States) --- Jurisprudence
Reinhard Strohm (Germany) --- Musicology
Kurt Lambeck (Australia) --- Solid Earth Sciences, with emphasis on interdisciplinary research
David Baulcombe (United Kingdom) --- Epigenetics
2013
André Vauchez (France) --- Medieval History
Manuel Castells (Spain) --- Sociology
Alain Aspect (France) --- Quantum Information Processing and Communication
Pascale Cossart (France) --- Infectious diseases: basic and clinical aspects
2014
Mario Torelli (Italy) --- Classical Archaeology
Ian Hacking (Canada) --- Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
G. David Tilman (United States) --- Basic and/or applied Plant Ecology
Dennis Sullivan (United States) --- Mathematics (pure or applied)
Vivre en Famille (France) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2015
Hans Belting (Germany) --- History of European Art (1300–1700)
Joel Mokyr  (Netherland / United States / Israel) --- Economic History
Francis Halzen (Belgium / United States) --- Astroparticle Physics including neutrino and gamma-ray observation
David Karl (United States) --- Oceanography
2016
Piero Boitani (Italy) --- Comparative Literature
Reinhard Jahn (Germany) --- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, including neurodegenerative and developmental aspects
Federico Capasso (Italy) --- Applied Photonics
Robert Keohane (United States) --- International Relations: History and Theory
2017
Aleida Assmann (Germany) and Jan Assmann (Germany) --- Collective Memory
Bina Agarwal (India / United Kingdom) --- Gender Studies
Robert D. Schreiber (United States) and James P. Allison (United States) --- Immunological Approaches in Cancer Therapy
Michaël Gillon (Belgium) --- The Sun's Planetary System and Exoplanets
2018
Éva Kondorosi (Hungary / France) --- Chemical Ecology
Detlef Lohse (Germany) --- Fluid Dynamics
Jürgen Osterhammel (Germany) --- Global History
Marilyn Strathern (United Kingdom) --- Social Anthropology
Terre des hommes Foundation (Switzerland) --- Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among Peoples
2019
Jacques Aumont (France) --- Film Studies
Michael Cook (United States / United Kingdom) --- Islamic Studies
Luigi Ambrosio (Italy) --- Theory of Partial Differential Equations
Erika von Mutius, Klaus F. Rabe, Werner Seeger and Tobias Welte (all Germany) --- Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside