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Past Mendel Medal Recipients
William Thomas Newsome, III, PhD - 2022
Ellen Mosley-Thompson, PhD; Lonnie G. Thompson, PhD - 2020
Dr. Sylvia A. Earle - 2019
Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan - 2018
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP, OON, - 2017
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, - 2016
Brian Kobilka, MD - 2015
Dr. W. Ian Lipkin - 2014
Sylvester "Jim" Gates, Ph.D. - 2013
Ahmed H. Zewail, Ph.D. - 2012
Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone - 2011
Dr. Robert G. Webster, FRS - 2010
Dr. Kenneth R. Miller - 2009
George V. Coyne, S.J. - 2008
Dr. Margaret Dalzell Lowman - 2007
Dr. Paul Farmer - 2006
Dr. Holmes Rolston III - 2005
Dr. Ralph Hirschmann - 2004
Dr. Janet Rowley - 2003
Dr. Ruth Patrick - 2002
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey - 2001
Dr. Peter Doherty - 2000
Dr. Charles H. Townes - 1999
Dr. Francis S. Collins - 1998
Dr. Peter H. Raven - 1997
Dr. Maxine Singer - 1996
Dr. Victor A. McKusick - 1995
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp - 1993
Dr. Alfred M. Bongiovanni - 1968
Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel - 1965
Major Robert M. White, U.S.A.F. - 1963
Dr. James A. Shannon - 1961
Dr. William J. Thaler - 1960
Dr. (Rev.) James B. Macelwane, S.J. - 1955
Mr. Frank M. Piasecki - 1954
Dr. John C. Hubbard - 1946
Dr. George Speri Sperti - 1943
Dr. Joseph A. Becker - 1942
Dr. Eugene M. K. Geiling - 1941
Dr. Petrus J.W. Debye - 1940
Dr. (Rev.) John Montgomery Cooper - 1939
Dr. Thomas Parran - 1938
Dr. (Rev.) Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. - 1937
Dr. (Rev.) Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C. - 1936
Dr. Francis Owen Rice - 1935
Abbé Georges Edouard Etienne Lemaître, Ph.D., D.Sc. - 1934
Dr. Hugh Stott Taylor, F.R.S.L. - 1933
Dr. Francis P. Garvan - 1932
Dr. Karl F. Herzfeld - 1931
Dr. Albert F. Zahm - 1930
Dr. John A. Kolmer - 1929