•1800: Benjamin Thompson •1804: John Leslie •1808: William Murdoch •1810: Étienne-Louis Malus •1814: William Charles Wells •1816: Humphry Davy •1818: David Brewster •1824: Augustin-Jean Fresnel •1832: John Frederic Daniell •1834: Macedonio Melloni •1838: James David Forbes •1840: Jean-Baptiste Biot •1842: William Henry Fox Talbot
•1850: François Jean Dominique Arago •1852: George Gabriel Stokes •1854: Neil Arnott •1856: Louis Pasteur •1858: Jules Célestin Jamin •1860: James Clerk Maxwell •1862: Gustav Kirchhoff •1864: John Tyndall •1866: Hippolyte Fizeau •1868: Balfour Stewart •1870: Alfred Des Cloizeaux •1872: Anders Jonas Ångström •1874: Norman Lockyer •1876: Pierre Janssen •1878: Alfred Cornu •1880: William Huggins •1882: William de Wiveleslie Abney •1884: Tobias Robertus Thalen •1886: Samuel Pierpont Langley •1888: Pietro Tacchini •1890: Heinrich Hertz •1892: Nils Christoffer Dunér •1894: James Dewar •1896: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen e Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
•1900: Antoine Henri Becquerel •1902: Charles Algernon Parsons •1904: Ernest Rutherford •1906: Hugh Longbourne Callendar •1908: Hendrik Lorentz •1910: Heinrich Rubens •1912: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes •1914: John William Strutt •1916: William Henry Bragg •1918: Charles Fabry e Alfred Perot •1920: John William Strutt •1922: Pieter Zeeman •1924: Charles Vernon Boys •1926: Arthur Schuster •1928: Friedrich Paschen •1930: Peter Debye •1932: Fritz Haber •1934: Wander Johannes de Haas •1936: Ernest John Coker •1938: Robert Williams Wood •1940: Karl Siegbahn •1942: Gordon Dobson •1944: Harry Ricardo •1946: Alfred Egerton
•1950: Frank Whittle •1952: Frits Zernike •1954: Cecil Reginald Burch •1956: Frank Philip Bowden •1958: Thomas Ralph Merton •1960: Alfred Gordon Gaydon •1962: Dudley Maurice Newitt •1964: Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst •1966: William Penney •1968: Dennis Gabor •1970: Christopher Hinton •1972: Basil John Mason •1974: Alan Cottrell •1976: Ilya Prigogine •1978: George Porter •1980: William Frank Vinen •1982: Charles Gorrie Wynne •1984: Harold Hopkins •1986: Denis Rooke •1988: Felix Weinberg •1990: Walter Eric Spear •1992: Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley •1994: Andrew Keller •1996: Grenville Turner
•2000: Wilson Sibbett •2002: David King •2004: Richard Dixon •2006: Jean-Pierre Hansen •2008: Edward Hinds •2010: Gilbert Lonzarich