| Year |
Award Recipient |
| 2011 |
Professor Chao-Jun Li (Green Chemistry) |
| 2010 |
Professor Jianhong Wu (Applied Mathematics) |
| 2009 |
Professor Jinyan Li (Taxation Law) |
| 2008 |
Professor Hong Guo (Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics) |
| 2007 |
Professor Jing M. Chen (Ecosystem-Atmospheric Interactions) |
| 2006 |
Professor Peter Liu (Cardiovascular Research) |
| 2005 |
Professor Tak Hang Bill Chan (Synthetic Organic Chemistry) |
| 2004 |
Professor Tsun-Kong Sham (Spectroscopy and the Interplay of Electronic Structure) |
| 2003 |
Professor Cecil C. Yip (Insulin Research; Discovery of Proinsulin) |
| 2002 |
Professor Michael Siu (Advanced Spectrometry) |
| 2001 |
Professor Suning Wang (Advanced Materials Chemistry) |
| 2000 |
Professor Jon Mark (Wireless Communications) |
| 1999 |
Professor David Chuenyan Lai (Urban Geography) |
| 1998 |
Professor Jeffrey K-S Wan (Microwave Chemistry) |
| 1997 |
Professor Ming LI (Theoretical Computer Science) |
| 1996 |
Professor Jing Ming Xu (Quantum Electronics) |
| 1995 |
Professor Julia Ching (Chinese philosophy and Religions) |
| 1994 |
KAN, Yuet Wai, MD (Molecular Basis of Hemoglobinopathies and Gene Therapy) |
| 1993 |
HEW, Choy Leung, Ph.D. (Antifreeze Protein in Fish) |
| 1992 |
LAM, David C. See-Chai, the Honourable (Outstanding Service to Community) |
| 1991 |
WONG, Andrew K.C., Ph.D. (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) |
| 1990 |
LU, Wei-kao, Ph.D. (Technology of Steel Making) |
| 1989 |
LING, Victor, Ph.D. (Cancer Research) |
| 1988 |
Suen, Ching Yee., Ph.D. (Chinese Information Processing) |
| 1987 |
Wong, George S.K., Ph.D. (Discovery of the True Speed of Sound) |
| 1986 |
Chang, Thomas Ming Swi, MD (Artificial Cells in Medicine) |
| 1985 |
Mak, Tak Wah Ph.D. (Molecular Immunology) |
| 1985 |
Tsui, Lap-Chee, Ph.D. (Elucidation of the Cystic Fibrosis Gene) |
