2003: Edward Beebe and Alexander Pikin
Brookhaven National Lab
High-current, high-charge state EBIS for injection of ions including gold and uranium into the Brookhaven National Laboratory RHIC complex.
2005: E. D. Donets, D. E. Donets, E. E. Donets, and V. V. Salnikov
Dubna
Electron string source of highly charged ions
2007: Jens Peters
DESY
H- non cesiated volume source
2009: Claude Lyneis, Daniela Leitner, Hong-Wei Zhao, and Zu-Qi Xie
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, China
Developments of Superconducting, 3rd-Generation ECR Sources.
2011: Masahiro Okamura
Brookhaven National Lab
Direct Plasma Injection Heavy Ion Source (Gold Award);
Mamiko Sasao, Motoi Wada, and Masashi Kisaki
Tohoku University, Doshisha University, and National Institute of Fusion Sciences (Japan)
High-intensity positive helium ion source as a novel diagnostic for ITER plasmas (Silver Award)
2013: Yuri Kudryavtsev
KU Leuven
Laser ionization spectroscopy
2015: Richard Vondrasek
Argonne National Lab
Charge-breeding ECR
2017: Martin Stockli, Robert Welton, and Baoxi Han
SNS Team, Oak Ridge National Lab
Highly reliable, record production of H- beams.
2019: Anatoli Zelenski
Brookhaven National Lab
Development of High Current Optically Pumped Polarized H- Ion Source.
2023: Valentin Fedosseev
CERN
Pioneering the Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source (RILIS) technique for ISOL facilities.