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AAAS Presidents

  • Claire Fraser (2021)
  • Steven Chu (2020)
  • Margaret A. Hamburg (2019)
  • Susan Hockfield (2018)
  • Barbara A. Schaal (2017)
  • Geraldine Richmond (2016)
  • Gerald Fink (2015)
  • Phillip A. Sharp (2014)
  • William H. Press (2013)
  • Nina V. Fedoroff (2012)
  • Alice S. Huang (2011)
  • Peter Agre (2010)
  • James J. McCarthy (2009)
  • David Baltimore (2008)
  • John P. Holdren (2007)
  • Gilbert S. Omenn (2006)
  • Shirley Ann Jackson (2005)
  • Mary Ellen Avery (2004)
  • Floyd E. Bloom (2003)
  • Peter H. Raven (2002)
  • Mary L. Good (2001)
  • Stephen Jay Gould (2000)
  • M. R. C. Greenwood (1999)
  • Mildred S. Dresselhaus (1998)
  • Jane Lubchenco (1997)
  • Rita R. Colwell (1996)
  • Francisco J. Ayala (1995)
  • Eloise E. Clark (1994)
  • F. Sherwood Rowland (1993)
  • Leon M. Lederman (1992)
  • Donald N. Langenberg (1991)
  • Richard C. Atkinson (1990)
  • Walter E. Massey (1989)
  • Sheila Evans Widnall (1988)
  • Lawrence Bogorad (1987)
  • Gerard Piel (1986)
  • David A. Hamburg (1985)
  • Anna Jane Harrison (1984)
  • E. Margaret Burbidge (1983)
  • D. Allan Bromley (1982)
  • Frederick Mosteller (1981)
  • Kenneth Ewart Boulding (1980)
  • Edward E. David Jr. (1979)
  • Emilio Quincy Daddario (1978)
  • Emilio Quincy Daddario (1977)
  • William David McElroy (1976)
  • Margaret Mead (1975)
  • Roger Revelle (1974)
  • Leonard M. Rieser (1973)
  • Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1972)
  • Mina Rees (1971)
  • Athelstan Spilhaus (1970)
  • Hiram Bentley Glass (1969)
  • Walter Orr Roberts (1968)
  • Don Krasher Price (1967)
  • Alfred Sherwood Romer (1966)
  • Henry Eyring (1965)
  • Laurence McKinley Gould (1964)
  • Alan Tower Waterman (1963)
  • Paul M. Gross (1962)
  • Thomas Park (1961)
  • Chauncey Depew Leake (1960)
  • Paul Ernest Klopsteg (1959)
  • Wallace Reed Brode (1958)
  • Laurence H. Snyder (1957)
  • Paul Bigelow Sears (1956)
  • George Wells Beadle (1955)
  • Warren Weaver (1954)
  • Edward Uhler Condon (1953)
  • Detlev Wulf Bronk (1952)
  • Kirtley Fletcher Mather (1951)
  • Roger Adams (1950)
  • Elvin Charles Stakman (1949)
  • Edmund Ware Sinnott (1948)
  • Harlow Shapley (1947)
  • Charles Franklin Kettering (1946)
  • James Bryant Conant (1946)
  • Anton Julius Carlson (1944)
  • Isaiah Bowman (1943)
  • Arthur Holly Compton (1942)
  • Irving Langmuir (1941)
  • Albert Francis Blakeslee (1940)
  • Walter Bradford Cannon (1939)
  • Wesley Clair Mitchell (1938)
  • George David Birkhoff (1937)
  • Edwin Grant Conklin (1936)
  • Karl Taylor Compton (1935)
  • Edward Lee Thorndike (1934)
  • Henry Norris Russell (1933)
  • John Jacob Abel (1932)
  • Franz Boas (1931)
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan (1930)
  • Robert Andrews Millikan (1929)
  • Henry Fairfield Osborn (1928)
  • Arthur Amos Noyes (1927)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey (1926)
  • Michael I. Pupin (1925)
  • James McKeen Cattell (1924)
  • Charles Doolittle Walcott (1923)
  • James Playfair McMurrich (1922)
  • Eliakim H. Moore (1921)
  • Leland O. Howard (1920)
  • Simon Flexner (1919)
  • John Merle Coulter (1918)
  • Theodore William Richards (1917)
  • Charles Richard Van Hise (1916)
  • William Wallace Campbell (1915)
  • Charles William Eliot (1914)
  • Edmund Beecher Wilson (1913)
  • Edward Charles Pickering (1912)
  • Charles Edwin Bessey (1911)
  • Albert Abraham Michelson (1910)
  • David Starr Jordan (1909)
  • Thomas C. Chamberlin (1908)
  • Edward L. Nichols (1907)
  • William Henry Welch (1906)
  • Calvin Milton Woodward (1905)
  • William Gilson Farlow (1904)
  • Carroll Davidson Wright (1903)
  • Asaph Hall (1902)
  • Ira Remsen (1902)
  • Charles S. Minot (1901)
  • R. S. Woodward (1900)
  • Edward Francis Orton (1899)
  • Marcus Benjamin (1899)
  • Grove Karl Gilbert (1899)
  • Frederic Ward Putnam (1898)
  • William John McGee (acting; 1897)
  • Wolcott Gibbs (1897)
  • Edward Drinker Cope (1896)
  • Theodore Gill (1896)
  • Edward Williams Morley (1895)
  • Daniel Garrison Brinton (1894)
  • William Harkness (1893)
  • Joseph LeConte (1892)
  • Albert Benjamin Prescott (1891)
  • George L. Goodale (1890)
  • Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1889)
  • John Wesley Powell (1888)
  • Samuel Pierpont Langley (1887)
  • Edward Sylvester Morse (1886)
  • Hubert Anson Newton (1885)
  • John Peter Lesley (1884)
  • Charles Augustus Young (1883)
  • John William Dawson (1882)
  • George Jarvis Brush (1881)
  • Lewis Henry Morgan (1880)
  • George Frederick Barker (1879)
  • Othniel Charles Marsh (1878)
  • Simon Newcomb (1877)
  • William Barton Rogers (1876)
  • Julius Erasmus Hilgard (1875)
  • John Lawrence LeConte (1874)
  • Joseph Lovering (1873)
  • John Lawrence Smith (1872)
  • Asa Gray (1871)
  • William Chauvenet (1870)
  • Thomas Sterry Hunt (1870)
  • John Wells Foster (1869)
  • Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1868)
  • John Strong Newberry (1867)
  • Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (1866)
  • Isaac Lea (1860)
  • Stephen Alexander (1859)
  • Jeffries Wyman (1858)
  • Jacob Whitman Bailey (1857)
  • Alexis Caswell (1857)
  • James Hall (1856)
  • John Torrey (1855)
  • James Dwight Dana (1854)
  • Benjamin Peirce (1852)
  • Louis Agassiz (1851)
  • Alexander Dallas Bache (1850)
  • Joseph Henry (1849)
  • William C. Redfield (1848)