| Lecturer |
Honoree |
|
| 2025 | Kelley Tilmon | Maud Doria Haviland |
| 2024 | Lars Chittka | Charles Henry Turner |
| 2023 | Tracy Leskey | Ronald Prokopy |
| 2022 | Christopher Beatty | Jean-Henri Fabre |
| 2021 | Vernard Lewis | Margaret Collins |
| 2020 | Michelle Samuel-Foo | Ernest Harris |
| 2019 | Walter Leal | Thomas Eisner |
| 2018 | Shirley Luckhart | Walter Reed |
| 2017 | Carol Anelli | Anna Comstock |
| 2016 | Anthony James | Edward Knipling |
| 2015 | Tom Baker | Harry Shorey |
| 2014 | Fred Gould | Robert Rabb |
| 2013 | Anurag A. Agrawal | Dame Miriam Rothschild |
| 2012 | Gene Kritsky | Charles Darwin |
| 2011 | Angela Douglas | Reginald Frederick Chapman |
| 2010 | Ken Raffa | Andrew Delmar Hopkins |
| 2009 | Edward D. Walker | George B. Craig, Jr. |
| 2008 | Allan S. Felsot | Robert L. Metcalf |
| 2007 | Leon G. Higley | Asa Fitch |
| 2006 | H. Frederik Nijhout | Sir Vincent B. Wigglesworth |
| 2005 | Terry L. Erwin | Roy A. Crowson |
| 2004 | William J. Mattson | Samuel A. Graham |
| 2003 | Gene Robinson | Walter Rothenbuhler |
| 2002 | George G. Kennedy | Carl Huffaker |
| 2001 | Charles Triplehorn | Dwight DeLong |
| 2000 | Marcos Kogan | Leo Dale Newsom |
| 1999 | David L. Denlinger | Stanley D. Beck |
| 1998 | Ronald J. Prokopy | John S. Kennedy |
| 1997 | John G. Hildebrand | Vincent G. Dethier |
| 1996 | James A. Slater | Edith Marion Patch |
| 1995 | Herbert Oberlander | Howard A. Schneiderman |
| 1994 | May Berenbaum | Charles Brues |
| 1993 | Peter W. Price | Curtis P. Clausen |
| 1992 | Marjorie A. Hoy | Robert Vanden Bosch |
| 1991 | William S. Bowers | Carroll H. Williams |
| 1990 | W. Joe Lewis | Harry S. Smith |
| 1989 | James W. Truman | Gottfried S. Frankel |
| 1988 | George B. Craig | H.G. Dyar |
| 1987 | Guy L. Bush | Benjamin D. Walsh |
| 1986 | David L. Wood | Frederick P. Kean |
| 1985 | Perry L. Adkisson | Robey Wentworth |
| 1984 | Harry Hoogstraal | Theobold Smith |
| 1983 | Howard A. Schneiderman | Edward A. Steinhaus |
| 1982 | James H. Oliver, Jr. | Robert L. Usinger |
| 1981 | Charles D. Micherner | H.H. Ross |
| 1980 | Wendell L. Roelofs | Frank L. Campbell |
| 1979 | L.D. Newsom | Dwight Isley |
| 1978 | Robert L. Metcalf | T.D.A. Cockerell |
| 1977 | Robert L. Rabb | C.L. Metcalf |
| 1976 | Fowden G. Maxwell | Reginald H. Painter |
| 1975 | Dale M. Norris | Wesley P. Flint |
| 1974 | Raymond C. Bushland | William B. Herms |
| 1973 | Murray S. Blum | Vernon L. Kellogg |
| 1972 | E.O. Wilson | William M. Wheeler |
| 1971 | Ray F. Smith | William H. Riley |
| 1970 | H.H. Ross | Townend Glover |
| 1969 | Thomas Eisner | Robert E. Snodgrass |
| 1968 | G.B. Fairchild | Herman A. Hagen |
| 1967 | Vincent G. Dethier | E.P. Felt |
| 1966 | Kenneth D. Roeder | Thaddeus W. Harris |
| 1965 | Edward F. Knipling | James Fletcher |
| 1964 | Dwight M. DeLong | Herbert Osburn |
| 1963 | George C. Decker | John L. LeConte |
| 1962 | Stanley D. Beck | S.A. Forbes |
| 1961 | Theodore H. Hubbell | Thomas Say |
| 1960 | A.W.A. Brown | John H. Comstock |
| 1959 | E.A. Steinhaus | C.V. Riley |
| 1958 | Carrol M. Williams | L.O. Howard |
