Plant, soil, and microbial sciences Name Institution Year Elizabeth Ainsworth United States Department of Agriculture 2020 Richard Amasino University of Wisconsin–Madison 2006 Charles Arntzen Arizona State University 1983 John D. Axtell (died 2000) Purdue University 1982 Julia Bailey-Serres University of California, Riverside 2016 Stanley Barber (died 2002) Purdue University 1987 Alice Barkan University of Oregon 2020 Roger Beachy Donald Danforth Plant Science Center 1997 Jeffrey Bennetzen University of Georgia 2004 James Birchler University of Georgia 2011 Norman Borlaug (died 2009) International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center 1968 John Boyer University of Delaware 1990 Myron Brakke (died 2007) University of Nebraska–Lincoln 1974 John Bremner (died 2007) Iowa State University 1984 Steven P. Briggs University of California, San Diego 2000 Winston Brill Winston J. Brill and Associates 1989 William L. Brown (died 1991) Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. 1980 George Bruening (died 2023) University of California, Davis 1992 Edward Buckler Cornell University 2014 C. Robin Buell University of Georgia 2025 Martin Bukovac (died 2025 Michigan State University 1983 Robert H. Burris (died 2010) University of Wisconsin–Madison 1961 Glenn Burton (died 2005) U.S. Department of Agriculture 1975 James C. Carrington Donald Danforth Plant Science Center 2008 Vicki Chandler University of Arizona 2002 Te-Tzu Chang (died 2006) International Rice Research Institute 1994 Xuemei Chen Peking University 2013 Alice Y. Cheung University of Massachusetts Amherst 2025 Mary-Dell Chilton Syngenta 1985 Adrienne Clarke University of Melbourne 1993 C. Clark Cockerham (died 1996) North Carolina State University 1974 Luca Comai University of California, Davis 2023 R. James Cook Washington State University 1993 George Coupland Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research 2012 Sean Cutler University of California, Riverside 2018 J. M. Daly (died 1993) University of Nebraska–Lincoln 1984 Robert E. Davis (died 2019) Agricultural Research Service 2005 C. T. de Wit (died 1993) Wageningen Agricultural University 1992 Dean DellaPenna Michigan State University 2021 Deborah Delmer Rockefeller Foundation 2004 Elizabeth S. Dennis University of Technology Sydney 2021 Theodor Diener (died 2023) University of Maryland, College Park 1977 Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar University of California, Davis 2024 Richard Dixon (biologist) University of North Texas 2007 Xinnian Dong Duke University 2012 Hugo K. Dooner Rutgers University 2007 Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis 2013 Donald Duvick (died 2006) Iowa State University 2002 Robert L. Fischer University of California, Berkeley 2009 Otto H. Frankel (died 1998) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization 1988 Michael Freeling University of California, Berkeley 1994 Wolf Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 2024 David T. Gibson (died 2014) University of Iowa 2005 James Giovannoni Agricultural Research Service 2016 Robert Glen (died 1991) Canadian Department of Agriculture 1967 Robert Goldberg (died 2025) University of California, Los Angeles 2001 Major M. Goodman (died 2026) North Carolina State University 1986 Mary Lou Guerinot Dartmouth College 2016 Sarah Hake United States Department of Agriculture 2009 Arnel Hallauer Iowa State University 1989 Andrew D. Hanson (died 2025) University of Florida 2024 Jack Harlan (died 1998) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1972 Bryan Harrison Scottish Crop Research Institute 1998 Maria Harrison Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research 2019 Sheng Yang He Duke University 2015 Charles R. Henderson (died 1989) Cornell University 1985 George H. Hepting (died 1988) North Carolina State University 1969 Luis Herrera-Estrella Texas Tech University 2003 Takayoshi Higuchi (died 2017) Kyoto University 1991 James G. Horsfall (died 1995) Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 1953 Carl Barton Huffaker (died 1995) University of California, Berkeley 1982 Roger W. Innes Indiana University Bloomington 2025 Marion L. Jackson (died 2002) University of Wisconsin-Madison 1986 Steven Jacobsen University of California, Los Angeles 2011 Jonathan D. G. Jones University of East Anglia 2015 Regine Kahmann Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology 2021 Kenneth Keegstra Michigan State University 2014 Noel T. Keen (died 2002) University of California, Riverside 1997 Arthur Kelman (died 2009) North Carolina State University 1976 Allen Kerr (died 2023) University of Adelaide 1991 Gurdev Khush University of California, Davis 1989 T. Kent Kirk (died 2025) University of Wisconsin–Madison 1988 Todd Klaenhammer (died 2021) North Carolina State University 2001 Harry Klee University of Florida 2012 Tsune Kosuge (died 1988) University of California, Davis 1988 Jane A. Langdale University of Oxford 2019 Brian Larkins (died 2025) University of Arizona 1996 Jan E. Leach Colorado State University 2021 Johannes Lehmann Cornell University 2023 Charles S. Levings (died 2017) North Carolina State University 1987 Steven Lindow University of California, Berkeley 1999 Zachary Lippman Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2021 David Lobell Stanford University 2023 Philip F. Low (died 1997) Purdue University 1992 Paul C. Mangelsdorf (died 1989) Harvard University 1945 Walter F. O. Marasas (died 2012) South African Medical Research Council 2007 Gregory B. Martin Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research 2022 Susan McCouch Cornell University 2018 Blake C. Meyers University of California, Davis 2022 Richard W. Michelmore University of California, Davis 2024 Oliver E. Nelson Jr. (died 2001) University of Wisconsin–Madison 1972 Eugene Nester University of Washington 1994 William Ogren (died 2025) U.S. Department of Agriculture 1986 Donald R. Ort University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2017 Anne E. Osbourn John Innes Centre 2022 Jane E. Parker Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research 2023 Uta Paszkowski University of Cambridge 2025 Stanley J. Peloquin (died 2008) University of Wisconsin–Madison 1984 Ronald L. Phillips (died 2023) University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 1991 Craig S. Pikaard Indiana University 2017 Charles M. Rick (died 2002) University of California, Davis 1967 Ralph Riley (died 1999) Agricultural and Food Research Council 1982 Pamela Ronald University of California, Davis 2019 Richard Evans Schultes (died 2001) Harvard University 1971 Paul Schulze-Lefert Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research 2010 Kate Scow University of California, Davis 2022 Ernest Robert Sears (died 1991) University of Missouri 1964 Ronald Sederoff North Carolina State University 1995 Luis Sequeira (died 2021) University of Wisconsin–Madison 1980 Robert J. Shepherd (died 2025) University of Kentucky1988 Kazuo Shinozaki RIKEN 2020 George F. Sprague (died 1998) University of Illinois Chicago 1968 Brian Staskawicz University of California, Berkeley 1998 Stanley Stephens (died 1986) North Carolina State University 1967 M. S. Swaminathan (died 2023) Indian Council of Agricultural Research 1977 Champ B. Tanner (died 1990) University of Wisconsin–Madison 1981 Michael Thomashow Michigan State University 2003 Koichiro Tsunewaki (died 2022) Fukui Prefectural University 1996 Barbara Valent Kansas State University 2020 James Van Etten University of Nebraska–Lincoln 2003 Elizabeth Vierling University of Massachusetts Amherst 2023 Julia A. Vorholt ETH Zurich 2024 Daniel Voytas University of Minnesota 2019 Cecil Wadleigh (died 1997) United States Department of Agriculture 1973 Paul Edward Waggoner (died 2022) Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 1978 John Charles Walker (died 1994) University of Wisconsin–Madison 1945 Susan Wessler University of California, Riverside 1998 Yasuyuki Yamada Nara Institute of Science and Technology 1999 Martin Yanofsky University of California, San Diego 2008 Dani Zamir The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2023 George A. Zentmyer (died 2003) University of California, Riverside 1979 Qifa Zhang Huazhong Agricultural University 2007 Jian-Kang Zhu Southern University of Science and Technology 2010