| 1952 |
Louis de Broglie |
Nobel 1929 |
 France |
| 1953 |
Julian Huxley |
|
 United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
| 1954 |
Waldemar Kaempffert |
|
 USA/Etats-Unis |
| 1955 |
Augusto Pi Suner |
|
 Venezuela |
| 1956 |
George Gamow |
|
USA/Etats Unis |
| 1957 |
Bertrand Russel |
Nobel 1950 |
United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
| 1958 |
Karl von Frisch |
Nobel 1973 |
 F.R. Germany/R.F. d'Allemagne |
| 1959 |
Jean Rostand |
|
France |
| 1960 |
Ritchie Calder |
|
United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
| 1961 |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
| 1962 |
Gerald Piel |
|
USA/Etats Unis |
| 1963 |
Jagjit Singh |
|
 India/Inde |
| 1964 |
Warren Weaver |
|
USA/Etats Unis |
| 1965 |
Eugene Rabinovitch |
|
USA/Etats Unis |
| 1966 |
Paul Couderc |
|
France |
| 1967 |
Fred Hoyle |
|
United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
| 1968 |
Gavin de Beer |
|
United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
| 1969 |
Konrad Lorenz |
Nobel 1973 |
 Austria/Autriche |
| 1970 |
Margaret Mead |
|
USA/Etats Unis |
| 1971 |
Pierre Augier |
|
France |
| 1972 |
Philip H. Abelson
Nigel Calder |
|
| USA/Etats Unis |
| United Kingdom/Royaume Uni |
|
| 1973 |
Not awarded |
|
|
| 1974 |
José Reis
Louis Estrada |
|
 Brazil/Brésil |
 Mexico/Mexique |
|
| 1975 |
Not awarded |
|
|
| 1976 |
George Porter
Alexander Oparin |
Nobel 1967 |
| United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
 USSR/URSS |
|
| 1977 |
Fernand Seguin |
|
 Canada |
| 1978 |
Hoimar von Ditfurth |
|
F.R. Germany/R.F. d'Allemagne |
| 1979 |
Sergei Kapitza |
|
USSR/URSS |
| 1980 |
Aristide Bastidas |
|
Venezuela |
| 1981 |
David F. Attenborough
Dennis Flanagan |
|
| United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
| USA/Etats Unis |
|
| 1982 |
Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa |
|
Brazil/Brésil |
| 1983 |
Abdullah Al Muti Sharafuddin |
|
 Bangladesh |
| 1984 |
Yves Coppens
Igor Petryanov |
|
| France |
| USSR/URSS |
|
| 1985 |
Sir Peter Medawar |
Nobel 1960 |
United Kingdom/Royaume-Uni |
| 1986 |
Nicolai G. Basov
David Suzuki |
Nobel 1964 |
| USSR/URSS |
| Canada |
|
| 1987 |
Marcel Roche |
|
Venezuela |
| 1988 |
Björn Kurtén |
|
 Finland/Finlande |
| 1989 |
Saad Ahmed Shabaan |
|
 A.R. of Egypt/R.A. d'Egypte |
| 1990 |
Misbah-Ud-Din Shami |
|
 Pakistan |
| 1991 |
Radu Iftimovici
Narender K. Sehgal |
|
 Romania/Roumanie |
| India/Inde |
|
| 1992 |
Jorge Flores Valdés
Peter Okebukola |
|
| Mexico/Mexique |
 Nigeria/Nigéria |
|
| 1993 |
Piero Angela |
|
 Italy/Italie |
| 1994 |
Nikolai N. Drozdov |
|
 Russia/Russie |
| 1995 |
Julieta Fierro Gossman |
|
Mexico/Mexique |
| 1996 |
Jirí Grygar
Jayant V. Narlikar |
|
 Czech Rep./Rep. Tchèque |
| India/Inde |
|
| 1997 |
Dorairajan Balasubramanian |
|
India/Inde |
| 1998 |
Regina Paz Lopez
Ennio Candotti |
|
 Philippines |
| Brazil/Brésil |
|
| 1999 |
Marian Addy
Emil Gabrielian |
|
 Ghana |
 Armenia/Arménie |
|
| 2000 |
Ernst W. Hamburger |
|
Brazil/Brésil |
| 2001 |
Stefano Fantoni |
|
Italy/Italie |
| 2002 |
Marisela Salvatierra |
|
Venezuela |
| 2003 |
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy |
|
Pakistan |
| 2004 |
Jean Audouze |
|
France |
| 2005 |
Jeter Jorge Bertoletti |
|
Brazil |
2006
2007
2008 |
Could Not be Awarded due to Change of UNESCO Rules |
| 2009 |
Prof Yash Pal
Trinh Xuan Thuan |
|
| India |
 Vietnam |
|
| 2011 |
Rene Raul Drucker Colin |
|
 Mexico |
| 2013 |
Prof. Xiangyi Li |
|
 China |
| 2015 |
Prof. Diego Andres Golombek |
|
 Argentina |
| 2017 |
Erik Jacquemyn |
|
 Belgium |
| 2019 |
Karl Kruszelnicki |
|
 Australia |
