• 2004
Paul Kirchhof, former Federal Constitutional Court judge. • 2005
Carl Djerassi, chemist and writer. • 2006
Peter Bieri, professor of philosophy, novelist. • 2007
Arnold Esch, historian and writer. • 2008
Roald Hoffmann, chemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. • 2009
Christian Meier, ancient historian. • 2010
Bert Hölldobler, behavioural scientist and sociobiologist. • 2011 , Spanish jurist and writer. • 2012
Helmut Schwarz, German chemist. • 2013
Joshua Rifkin, American musicologist. • 2014
Lorraine Daston, American science historian. • 2015 , German jurist. • 2017
James G. Anderson, American climatologist. • 2019
Andrea Wulf, German-British cultural and economic historian. • 2022
Douglas R. Hofstadter • 2023
Carlo Masala • 2025
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