| 2012 |
|
Dr. Fujio Masuoka |
|
Inventor of flash memory |
| 2011 |
|
Nobukazu Teranishi |
|
Outstanding and critical contributions to digital photography. |
| 2010 |
|
Art Wolfe |
|
Photographer, author, environmentalist |
| 2009 |
|
Felice Frankel |
|
Clarification of science through photography |
| 2008 |
|
Minoru Usui |
|
Micro Piezo Inkjet printing technology |
| 2007 |
|
Frans Lanting |
|
Environmental photographer |
| 2006 |
|
Steven J. Sasson |
|
Conceived first digital camera |
| 2005 |
|
Larry J. Hornbeck |
|
DLP projection technology |
| 2004 |
|
David Muench |
|
Landscape photographer |
| 2003 |
|
Eric R. Fossum |
|
Developer, CMOS chip |
| 2002 |
|
John Shaw |
|
Nature photographer, educator and author |
| 2001 |
|
Thomas Knoll |
|
Co-Creator Adobe Photoshop |
| |
|
John Knoll |
|
Co-Creator Adobe Photoshop |
| 2000 |
|
Dr. Robert Q. Fugate |
|
Adaptive optics |
| 1999 |
|
Dr. Tung H. Jeong |
|
Developments in Holography |
| 1998 |
|
George D. Lepp |
|
Nature photographer; author, inventor |
| 1997 |
|
Lennart Nilsson |
|
Medical field video |
| 1996 |
|
Scott A. Brownstein |
|
Photo CD inventor |
| 1995 |
|
Dr. Albert L. Sieg |
|
Many patents contributing to photographic science in area of graphic arts |
| 1994 |
|
no award given |
|
|
| 1993 |
|
Dr. David F. Malin |
|
Deep sky photography |
| 1992 |
|
Gordon Parks |
|
Photojournalist; writer, director, film producer |
| 1991 |
|
Jack S. Kilby |
|
Integrated circuit co-inventor |
| |
|
Robert N. Noyce |
|
Integrated circuit co-inventor |
| 1990 |
|
Freeman Patterson |
|
Photographer, author |
| 1989 |
|
Eliot Porter |
|
Photographer |
| 1988 |
|
Dr. Robert Edward Booms |
|
T-grain emulsion development |
| |
|
Dr. James T. Kofron |
|
T-grain emulsion development |
| 1987 |
|
Alfred Eisenstaedt |
|
Photojournalist |
| 1986 |
|
Willard S. Boyle |
|
Charge couple device development |
| |
|
George E. Smith |
|
Charge couple device development |
| 1985 |
|
Arthur Rothstein |
|
Photojournalist |
| 1984 |
|
Clifton C. Edom |
|
Photojournalism educator |
| 1983 |
|
John G. Mulder |
|
Film coating, international standards |
| 1982 |
|
Herbert T. Robinson |
|
Carousel slide projector inventor |
| 1981 |
|
Paul Arnold |
|
Standards for film, cartridge, holder |
| 1980 |
|
Allan MacLeod Cormack |
|
Cat scan technique |
| 1979 |
|
Godfrey N. Hounsfield |
|
Cat scan technique |
| 1978 |
|
Allen G. Stimson |
|
Inventor, exposure meter devices |
| 1977 |
|
Jacques-Yves Cousteau |
|
Undersea photography research |
| 1976 |
|
Dr. Wesley T. Hanson Jr. |
|
Kodacolor film research |
| 1975 |
|
Dr. John Nash Ott |
|
Time lapse & photo biology |
| 1974 |
|
HarrisB. Tuttle |
|
Medical, sports, forensic photography |
| 1973 |
|
H. Lou Gibson |
|
Medical, technical, nature photography |
| 1972 |
|
Dr. Katherine Burr Blodget |
|
Non-reflective glass development |
| 1971 |
|
Dr. Victor Hasselblad |
|
Camera creator |
| 1970 |
|
Leopold Godowsky |
|
Kodachrome film co-inventor |
| 1969 |
|
Ansel Adams |
|
Photographer, author |
| 1968 |
|
C.B. Neblette |
|
Educator, editor, author |
| 1967 |
|
Capt. Edward J. Steichen |
|
Navy, Family of Man curator |
| 1966 |
|
Adolf Fassbender |
|
Photographer & educator |
| 1965 |
|
Beaumont Newhall |
|
Historian, author & curator |
| 1964 |
|
Dr. Deane Rowland White |
|
Physicist, photo standards development |
| 1963 |
|
Dr. Melville Grosvenor |
|
President & editor National Geographic |
| 1962 |
|
Dr. Herman Hans Duerr |
|
High speed mono & color research |
| 1961 |
|
Lloyd E. Varden |
|
Educator, historian |
| 1960 |
|
Dr. Edwin H. Land |
|
Camera, light polarizing material |
| 1959 |
|
W.R. Hunter |
|
Space research photography |
| |
|
Dr. D.M. Packer |
|
Space research photography |
| |
|
J.D. Purcell |
|
Space research photography |
| |
|
Dr. Richard Tousey |
|
Space research photography |
| 1958 |
|
Roy E. Stryker |
|
Government photo agencies chief |
| 1957 |
|
Edward Weston |
|
Photographer |
| 1956 |
|
Dr. John I. Crabtree |
|
Chemistry & motion picture development |
| 1955 |
|
Dr. Harold E. Edgerton |
|
Electronic flash development |
| 1954 |
|
Henry R. Luce |
|
Life Magazine editor-in-chief |
| 1953 |
|
no award given |
|
|
| 1952 |
|
Walt Disney |
|
Motion picture art contributions |
| 1951 |
|
Col. George Goddard |
|
Chief Air Force photo lab, Dayton, OH |
| 1950 |
|
Dr. Lloyd A. Jones |
|
Kodak field of sensitometry |
| 1949 |
|
J. Dudley Johnston |
|
Clubs & societies development |
| 1948 |
|
Dr. C.E.K. Mees |
|
Technical achievement & literature |
