| 2007 | Ronald Douglas |
| Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University |
| John Lewis |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of Kentucky |
| 2006 | Sir Randolph Bacon III*, Williams College |
| *cousin-in-law to Colin Adams, |
| Francis Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics, Williams College |
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| 2005 | Tomasz Mrowka |
| Professor of Mathematics, Mathematical Institute of Technology |
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| 2004 | David Eisenbud |
| Director of MSRI and President of the AMS |
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| 2003 | David Hoffman |
| Associate Director for External Collaboration |
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley |
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| 2002 | Cameron Gordon |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin |
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| 2001 | Robion Kirby |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 2000 | Richard Beals |
| Professor of Mathematics, Yale University |
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| 1999 | Karen Smith |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan |
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| 1998 | Bernd Sturmfels |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 1997 | Kenneth Ross |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of Oregon |
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| 1996 | Richard Kadison |
| Gustave Kuemmerle Professor of Mathematics |
| University of Pennsylvania |
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| 1995 | Andrew Gleason |
| Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University |
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| 1994 | Persi Diaconis |
| Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University |
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| 1993 | Irving Kaplansky |
| Director, Mathematical Sciences Research |
| Institute at Berkeley |
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| 1992 | Robert Fefferman |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago |
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| 1991 | Charles Curtis |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of Oregon |
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| 1990 | Garrett Birkhoff |
| Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University |
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| 1989 | Ronald L. Graham |
| AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ |
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| 1988 | Raoul Bott |
| William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics |
| Harvard University |
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| 1987 | Lynn Arthur Steen |
| Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College |
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| 1986 | Henry O. Pollak |
| Assistant Vice-President for Mathematical |
| Communications and Computer Science Research, |
| Bell Communications Research, Inc. |
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| 1985 | Peter J. Hilton |
| Distinguished Professor of Mathematics |
| State University of New York at Binghamton |
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| 1984 | Ivan Niven |
| Professor of Mathematics, University of Oregon |
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| 1983 | Paul R. Halmos |
| Distinguished Professor of Mathematics |
| Indiana University
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