| May 2021 | - Mark Rivers
- Stephen Sutton
| Co-directing the design, construction, and operation of the GeoSoilEnviroCARS (GSECARS) Sector 13. |  |
| May 2019 | | His ingenuity and insight in developing x-ray thermal diffuse scattering into an efficient quantitative method for phonon band structure studies. |  |
| May 2015 | - Gene E. Ice
- Bennett C. (Ben) Larson
- Cullie J. Sparks (posthumously)
| Seminal developments that have advanced capabilities for spatially and temporally resolved synchrotron x-ray research. |
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| May 2013 | - David E. Moncton
- John N. Galayda
- Michael Borland
- Louis Emery
| Implementing the first "top-up" operation in a synchrotron light source |
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| May 2011 | - Edward Stern
- Farrel Lytle
- Dale Sayers (posthumously)
- John Rehr
| Development of the technique of x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS) |
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| May 2009 | - Gerhard Grübel
- Simon Mochrie
- Mark Sutton
| Pioneering efforts in x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), which exploits the coherent properties of synchrotron x-rays to study the slow dynamics of condensed matter at short length scales |
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| May 2007 | - Andrzej Joachimiak
- Gerold Rosenbaum
| Pioneering advances and leadership in establishing the APS as a premier location worldwide for protein crystallography research | |
| May 2005 | | Pioneering and developing the field of x-ray microscopy using Fresnel zone plates | |
| April 2003 | - Martin Blume
- L. Doon Gibbs
- Denis McWhan
- Kazumichi Namikawa
| Pioneering theoretical and experimental work in resonant magnetic x-ray scattering, which has led to important applications in condensed matter physics | |
| October 2001* | | Development and use of multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) methods |
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| May 2000 | | Development of the general theory of off-specular surface scattering |
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| October 1998* | - Donald H. Bilderback
- Andreas K. Freund
- Gordon S. Knapp
- Dennis M. Mills
| Development of cryogenically cooled x-ray optics for handling undulator x-ray beams. | |
| April 1997* | - Philip M. Platzman
- Peter M. Eisenberger
| Theoretical and experimental contributions to the fields of x-ray scattering | |
| October 1995* | - Nikolai Vinokurov
- Klaus Halbach
| Development of hybrid undulator x-ray sources | |
