| 1969--70 | Walter Rudin (Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin) |
| 1970--71 | I.M. Singer (Professor of Mathematics, MIT) |
| 1971--72 | Andrew Gleason (Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University) |
| 1972--73 | Raoul Bott (Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University) |
| 1973--74 | Andre Weil (Professor of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study) |
| 1974--75 | Charles Fefferman (Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University |
| 1975--76 | Dennis Hejhal (Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota) |
| 1976--77 | Victor Guillemin (Professor of Mathematics, MIT) |
| 1977--78 | Phillip Griffiths (Provost and Professor of Mathematics, Duke University) |
| 1978--79 | Mark Kac (Deceased Professor of Mathematics, Rockefeller University) |
| 1979--80 | James Glimm (Professor of Mathematics, New York University) |
| 1980--81 | Charles C. Conley (Deceased Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota) |
| 1981--82 | Cathleen S. Morawetz (Professor of Mathematics, Director of the Courant Institute, New York University) |
| 1982--83 | Gilbert Strang (Professor of Mathematics, MIT) |
| 1983--84 | Richard Shore (Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University) |
| 1984--85 | Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. (Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University) |
| 1985--86 | John W. Morgan (Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University) |
| 1986--87 | Shing Tung Yau (Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University) |
| 1987--88 | Edward Nelson (Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University) |
| 1988--89 | No Lecturers |
| 1989--90 | Peter Lax ((Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University) |
| 1990--91 | Blaine Lawson (Professor of Mathematics, SUNY at Stony Brook) |
| 1991--92 | No Lecturers |
| 1992 | George Papanicolaou (Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University) |
| 1993 | Robert MacPherson (Professor of Mathematics, MIT) |
| 1993--94 | No Lecturers |
| 1994 | Curt T. McMullen (Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley) |
| 1995 | Andrew J. Majda (Professor of Mathematics, Princeton) |
| 1996 | Peter Sarnak (Professor of Mathematics, Princeton) |
| 1998 | Stephen Semmes (Professor of Mathematics, Rice) |
| 1999 | Gerhard Huisken (Professor of Mathematics, Universitaet Tuebingen) |
| 2000 | Leo P. Kadanoff (Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago) |
| 2000 | Martin Nowak, Director of Theoretical Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study |
| 2000 | Sir Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University |
| 2001 | Percy Deift, University of Pennsylvania and the Courant Institute |
| 2004 | Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2006 | Gang Tian, Princeton University |
| 2006 | Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute |