| Name | Institution | Year |
| Jillian F. Banfield | University of California, Berkeley | 2006 |
| Katherine Freeman | Pennsylvania State University | 2013 |
| Edward Boyle | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2008 |
| Claude Allègre | Universite de Paris | 1985 |
| Clarence Allen | California Institute of Technology | 1976 |
| Walter Alvarez | University of California, Berkeley | 1991 |
| Tanya Atwater | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1997 |
| Susan L. Brantley | Pennsylvania State University | 2012 |
| Paul B. Barton | U.S. Geological Survey | 1978 |
| William A. Berggren | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 1989 |
| Robert Berner | Yale University | 1987 |
| William F. Brace (D) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1971 |
| B. Clark Burchfiel | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1985 |
| Doug Burbank | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2010 |
| Thure E. Cerling | University of Utah | 2001 |
| Robert Coleman | Stanford University | 1980 |
| Douglas Coombs | University of Otago | 1977 |
| John C. Crowell | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1981 |
| G. Brent Dalrymple | Oregon State University | 1993 |
| George H. Denton | University of Maine | 2002 |
| Donald J. DePaolo | University of California, Berkeley | 1993 |
| John Dewey | University of California, Davis | 1997 |
| William Dickinson | University of Arizona | 1992 |
| James H. Dieterich | University of California, Riverside | 2003 |
| William E. Dietrich | University of California, Berkeley | 2003 |
| Richard Doell | U.S. Geological Survey | 1969 |
| Patricia Dove | Virginia Tech | 2012 |
| Thomas Dunne | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1988 |
| W. G. Ernst | Stanford University | 1975 |
| Alfred G. Fischer | University of Southern California | 1994 |
| Augusto Gansser | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 1971 |
| John Grotzinger | California Institute of Technology | 2002 |
| Warren B. Hamilton | Colorado School of Mines | 1989 |
| Stanley Hart | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 1983 |
| John Hayes | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 1998 |
| C. Vance Haynes | University of Arizona | 1990 |
| Russell J. Hemley | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 2001 |
| Paul F. Hoffman | Harvard University | 1992 |
| Albrecht Hofmann | Max Planck Institute for Chemistry | 1999 |
| Heinrich Holland | Harvard University | 1979 |
| Kenneth Hsu | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 1986 |
| John Imbrie | Brown University | 1978 |
| Edward Irving | Geological Survey of Canada | 1998 |
| Raymond Jeanloz | University of California, Berkeley | 2004 |
| Thomas Jordan | University of Southern California | 1998 |
| Barclay Kamb | California Institute of Technology | 1990 |
| James P. Kennett | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2000 |
| Dennis Kent | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 2004 |
| Susan Kieffer | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1986 |
| Andrew Knoll | Harvard University | 1991 |
| Ikuo Kushiro | University of Tokyo | 1983 |
| Arthur Lachenbruch | U.S. Geological Survey | 1975 |
| Luna Leopold | University of California, Berkeley | 1967 |
| Thomas S. Lovering | U.S. Geological Survey | 1949 |
| Ho-kwang Mao | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1993 |
| Alexandra Navrotsky | University of California, Davis | 1993 |
| Jack Oliver | Cornell University | 1984 |
| Neil Opdyke | University of Florida | 1996 |
| E. Ronald Oxburgh | University of Cambridge | 2001 |
| Walter C. Pitman | Columbia University | 2000 |
| Frank Press | Washington Advisory Group, LLC | 1958 |
| Raymond A. Price | Queen's University | 1988 |
| John G. Ramsay | University of Zurich | 1985 |
| David M. Raup | University of Chicago | 1979 |
| James R. Rice | Harvard University | 1981 |
| Frank M. Richter | University of Chicago | 2001 |
| Edwin Roedder | Harvard University | 1988 |
| A. M. Celal Sengor | Istanbul Technical University | 2000 |
| Kerry Sieh | California Institute of Technology | 1999 |
| Leon Silver | California Institute of Technology | 1974 |
| Norman Sleep | Stanford University | 1999 |
| Joseph V. Smith | University of Chicago | 1986 |
| Nikolai Sobolev | Russian Academy of Sciences | 1993 |
| Steven M. Stanley | Johns Hopkins University | 1994 |
| Edward Stolper | California Institute of Technology | 1994 |
| John Suppe | Princeton University | 1995 |
| Lynn Sykes | Columbia University | 1978 |
| Hugh Taylor | California Institute of Technology | 1981 |
| Paul Tapponnier | Nanyang Technological University | 2005 |
| S. Ross Taylor | Australian National University | 1994 |
| George Thompson | Stanford University | 1992 |
| James B. Thompson, Jr. | Harvard University | 1967 |
| Lonnie Thompson | Ohio State University | 2005 |
| George Tilton | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1977 |
| D. Rudolf Trümpy | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 1978 |
| David Walker | Columbia University | 1999 |
| E. Bruce Watson | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1997 |
| Peter J Wyllie | California Institute of Technology | 1981 |
| E-An Zen | University of Maryland, College Park | 1976 |
| Mary Lou Zoback | U.S. Geological Survey | 1995 |