Previous winners of the Distinguished Service Award

• 2005 B.C. Clark
  "For her exceptional contributions to the Division of Nuclear
  Physics, her leadership of the Division and of the American
  Physical Society on behalf of the Division, and her tireless
  effort to promote science and the status of women in nuclear
  physics, including the initiation of many programs to enhance
  the participation of under-represented groups in nuclear science."
• 2004 Ernest M. Henley
  "For his exceptional leadership of the Division of Nuclear Physics, his sage advice to the Division and the American Physical Society, his creative efforts in science outreach and his vigorous leadership in the creation of the Hans Bethe Prize and the Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award."
• 2003 Virginia R. Brown
  "For substantial and extensive contributions to the nuclear physics community through her commitment to the Division of Nuclear Physics, particularly for her very successful efforts to strengthen the financial standing of the Division, for building up the divisional archive, and for her role in bringing to fruition the historic first joint meeting of the nuclear physicists of the American and Japanese Physical Societies as the Chair of HAWAII 2001."