See the list of past recipients of the award, dating back to 1926.
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- 2025 - Kate Cole
- 2024 - Karen Dobson
- 2023 - Grant Maher
- 2022 - Dr Collette Burke
- 2021 - Jack Zhang
- 2019 - Greg Lewin AM
- 2011 - Jim Fox
- 2007 - Don M Grant
- 1999 - Patrick Boland
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- 1998 - Ian Vaughan
- 1997 - Dr Jörg Imberger AM FAA
- 1996 - Dr Robin J Batterham
- 1995 - Robert (Bob) H Brown
- 1994 - Dr John M Schubert
- 1993 - Dr Owen E Potter AM
- 1992 - G P Cook
- 1991 - Henry (Clive) R C Pratt
- 1990 - Harry S Wragge
- 1989 - Sir Arvi H Parbo AC
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- 1988 - Brian T Loton AC
- 1987 - Peter (Tom) T Fink
- 1986 - Prof Stanley Robert Siemon
- 1985 - Franco Belgiorno-Nettis
- 1984 - David (Hugh) H Trollope
- 1983 - Arthur J Francis
- 1982 - Sir Bernard J Callinan
- 1981 - Prof Hill Wesley Worner
- 1980 - Dr John W D Connell
- 1979 - Kenneth H Hunt
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- 1978 - Sir Frank Espie
- 1977 - Sir Brian Inglis
- 1976 - Sir John Holland
- 1975 - Sir James W Foots
- 1974 - Dr David M Myers
- 1973 - Prof Howard Knox Worner
- 1972 - Sir Robert Blackwood
- 1971 - Ian Langlands
- 1970 - Sir Ian M McLennan
- 1969 - Sir George Fischer
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- 1968 - Lawrence P Coombes
- 1967 - Dr James (Louis) A L Matheson
- 1966 - Sir John Philip Baxter
- 1965 - Sir Maurice A E Mawby
- 1964 - Sir Gordon Colvin Lindesay Clark
- 1963 - Sir Allan Walton Knight
- 1962 - Ronald Bannatyne Lewis
- 1961 - Asdruebal J Keast
- 1960 - Donald V Darwin
- 1959 - Sir Lawrence J Wackett
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- 1958 - Sir William Hudson
- 1957 - Willis H Connolly
- 1956 - William H R Nimmo
- 1955 - Sir Louis Francis Loder
- 1954 - Harry Hey
- 1953 - Eric Delbridge Shaw
- 1952 - Russell Dumas
- 1951 - Charles Home Kernot
- 1950 - Arthur K Hacke
- 1949 - Sir Lewis (Ron) Ronald East
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- 1948 - Sir Walter E Bassett
- 1947 - Thomas H Upton
- 1946 - John G Burnell
- 1945 - Daniel McVey
- 1944 - Sir Clive S Steele
- 1943 - Essington Lewis
- 1939 - Charles Frederick Broadhead
- 1938 - Sir George A Julius
- 1937 - Anthony (George) GM Michell
- 1936 - Frederick W H Wheadon
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- 1935 - Edgar G Ritchie
- 1934 - Herbert Reah Harper
- 1933 - John JC Bradfield
- 1932 - John Robert Kemp
- 1931 - George Kenneth Williams
- 1930 - Sir John Monash
- 1929 - Joseph Newell Reeson
- 1928 - Maurice Edwin Kernot
- 1927 - Robert William Chapman
- 1926 - Francis William Clements