Recipients
2025
Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D.
Seeing the Mind: Past, Present, and Future of Brain Imaging Research
Lecture Video
2024
Carlo Rovelli, Ph.D.
White Holes
Lecture Video
2023
Suzanne Simard, Ph.D.
Forests Connect Us
Lecture Video
2022
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Ph.D.
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
2021
Richard O. Prum, Ph.D.
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us
Lecture Video
2019
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., D.Phil.
Writing, Medicine, and Testimony: A Scientist as a Humanist
Lecture Video
2018
Kip S. Thorne, Ph.D.
Communicating Science Through The Arts: The Big Bang, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
2017
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
Sustainable Seas: The Vision, The Reality
Lecture Video
2016
Sean B. Carroll, Ph.D.
Brave Genius: Adventures with Jacques Monod and Albert Camus
Lecture Video
2015
Ian Stewart, Ph.D., F.R.S. & Steven Strogatz, Ph.D.
The Joy of Math, the Pursuit of the Unknown, and Other Topics Inspired By the Curiosities of Everyday Life
A Conversation with Alan Alda
Lecture Video
2014
Atul Gawande, M.D., M.P.H.
The Doctor as Writer, the Writer as Doctor
Lecture Video
2013
Frances Ashcroft, Ph.D.
Singing the Body Electric
Lecture Video
2012
Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
Touched with Fire: Mood Disorders and Creativity
Lecture Video
2009
Martin Rees, Ph.D.
From Big Bang to Biosphere
2008
Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.
Are We Just Another Primate? Are We Just a Collection of Neurons?
2007
James D. Watson, Ph.D.
Rules for Writing Books
2006
Richard Dawkins, D.Phil
Queerer than We Can Suppose: The Strangeness of Science
2005
Thomas Eisner, Ph.D.
The Ruling Class: Tales of Insect Surviva
2004
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Ph.D.
The Physiology of Truth: Toward a Neuroscience of Human Knowledge
2003
Richard Fortey, Ph.D., D.Sc.
The Earth: An Intimate History
2002
Jared Diamond, Ph.D.
Why Do Some Societies Collapse Through Failure to Solve Their Problems?
2001
Oliver Sacks, M.D.
Narrative and Science
2000
E.O. Wilson, Ph.D.
A Letter to Thoreau
1999
Steven Weinberg, Ph.D.
The Physics of Nothing
1998
Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.
How Does an Evolutionist Find Theories and Explanations without Experimentation?
1997
Max Perutz, Ph.D.
Science is No Quiet Life
1996
Freeman Dyson
Samuel Gompers and William Blake
1995
Abraham Pais, Ph.D.
On History, That Little Conjectural Science, That Great Art
1994
François Jacob, M.D., Sc.D.
Biology and Culture
1993
Lewis Thomas, M.D.
