| Year | Recipients | School/Institutions | Current Affiliation | Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Byungwoo Park | Harvard | Seoul National U. | Electomaterial Physics |
| 1995 | Sebastian Seung | Harvard | MIT | Computational Neuroscience |
| 1996 | Kyungwon An | MIT | Seoul National U. | Optics |
| 1997 | Insu Yi | Harvard | Ewha U. | Astrophysics |
| 1998 | Piljin Yi | Caltech / Cornell | Korea Advanced Institute of Studies | Field theory |
| 1999 | Yong Baek Kim | MIT | U. of Toronto | Condensed Matter |
| 2000 | Seun-Hun Lee | Johns Hopkins/NIST | UVA | Condensed Matter |
| 2001 | Taekjip Ha | UC Berkeley | U. Illinois | Biological Physics |
| 2002 | Philip Kim | Columbia | Superconductivity and Nanosicence | |
| 2003 | Hwang Lee | Texas A&M/JPL | LSU | Quantum Computing |
| 2004 | Sang-Ho Kim | LG Chemical | ||
| 2005 | Inseok Song | Georgia/Gemin Observatory | Caltech | Astrophysics |
| 2006 | Nam Jung Hur | Rutgers / LANL | Inha U | Condensed Matter and thermal physics |
| 2007 | Tuson Park (News article) | U. Illinois | LANL | Condensed Matter and thermal physics |
| 2008 | - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | Kyoungchul Kong | U. Florida | Fermi Nat. Lab. | Theoretical particle physics |
| 2010 | Ian Woo Kim | KAIST | U. of Wisconsin | Theoretical particle physics |