| Year – Whitehead Lecturer |
| 2019 Prof. Erling Ildstad |
| 2018 Prof. Herbert Kliem |
| 2017 Prof. Steven Boggs |
| 2016 Dr. Kaori Fukunaga |
| 2015 Prof. Stanislaw Gubanski |
| 2014 Prof. Reimund Gerhard |
| 2013 Prof. Masoud Farzaneh |
| 2012 Dr. Christian Laurent |
| 2011 Prof. Hitoshi Okubo |
| 2010 Prof. Gian Carlo Montanari |
| 2009 Prof. Friedrich Kremer |
| 2008 Dr. Soli S. Bamji |
| 2007 Prof. Yoshimichi Ohki |
| 2006 Prof. Teruyoshi Mizutani |
| 2005 Dr. Edward A. Cherney |
| 2004 Dr. Jean-Pierre Crine |
| 2003 Prof. Howard J. Wintle |
| 2002 Prof. Len A. Dissado |
| 2001 Dr. Toshikatsu Tanaka |
| 2000 Prof. Christian Mayoux |
| 1999 Prof. Tatsuo Takada |
| 1998 Prof. Markus Zahn |
| 1997 Dr. Roland Coelho |
| 1996 Dr. Dilip K. Das-Gupta |
| 1995 Dr. P. Keith Watson |
| 1994 Dr. Richard J. van Brunt |
| 1993 Prof. J. Keith Nelson |
| 1992 Prof. Gerhard M. Sessler |
| 1991 Dr. Hans-Rudolf Zeller |
| 1990 Prof. Andrew K. Jonscher |
| 1989 Mr. Aage Pedersen |
| 1988 Dr. Rodney V. Latham |
| 1987 Dr. Ray Bartnikas |
| 1986 Prof. Masayuke Ieda |
| 1985 Dr. Eric O. Forster |
| 1984 Dr. John C. Devins |
| 1983 Prof. John J. O’Dwyer |
| 1982 Prof. Graham Williams |
| 1981 Prof. James H. Calderwood |
| 1980 Dr. J. Ross MacDonald |
| 1979 Prof. Yoshio Inuishi |
| 1978 Prof. Bernhard Gross |
| 1977 Prof. John G. Trump |
| 1976 Prof. T. John Lewis |
| 1975 Dr. John D. Hoffman |
| 1974 Prof. Herbert Fröhlich |
| 1973 Mr. K. N. Mathes |
| 1972 Dr. A. H. Sharbaugh |
| 1971 Dr. J. Franklin Hyde |
| 1970 Dr. Frederick Seitz |
| 1969 Dr. Thomas W. Dakin |
| 1968 Prof. Heinz Raether |
| 1967 Prof. C. J. F. Böttcher |
| 1966 Dr. D. A. McLean |
| 1965 Prof. Leonard B. Loeb |
| 1964 Dr. Kenneth S. Cole |
| 1963 Prof. Lars Onsager |
| 1962 Prof. Robert H. Cole |
| 1961 Prof. Raymond M. Fuoss |
| 1960 Prof. Arthur R. von Hippel |
| 1959 Dr. Stanley O. Morgan |
| 1958 Prof. Charles P. Smyth |
| 1957 Mr. William A. Del Mar |
| 1956 Prof. Peter Debye |
| 1955 Prof. John G. Kirkwood |
