List of Presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), founded in 1848, is led by a president who is elected for a year. The term of office begins and ends with the end of the annual meeting in mid-February.

President of the AAAS since 1848
Year (s) president
2019 Margaret Hamburg
2018 Susan Hockfield
2017 Barbara A. Schaal
2016 Geraldine L. Richmond
2015 Gerald R. Fink
2014 Phillip A. Sharp
2013 William H. Press
2012 Nina Fedoroff
2011 Alice S. Huang
2010 Peter Agre
2009 James J. McCarthy
2008 David Baltimore
2007 John Holdren
2006 Gilbert S. Omenn
2005 Shirley Ann Jackson
2004 Mary Ellen Avery
2003 Floyd E. Bloom
2002 Peter H. Raven
2001 Mary L. Good
2000 Stephen Jay Gould
1999 MRC Greenwood
1998 Mildred S. Dresselhaus
1997 Jane Lubchenco
1996 Rita R. Colwell
1995 Francisco J. Ayala
1994 Eloise E. Clark
1993 F. Sherwood Rowland
1992 Leon M. Lederman
1991 Donald N. Langenberg
1990 Richard C. Atkinson
1989 Walter E. Massey
1988 Sheila E. Widnall
1987 Lawrence Bogorad
1986 Gerard Piel
1985 David A. Hamburg
1984 Anna J. Harrison
1983 E. Margaret Burbidge
1982 D. Allan Bromley
1981 Frederick Mosteller
1980 Kenneth E. Boulding
1979 Edward E. David Jr.
1977-1988 Emilio Q. Daddario
1976 William D. McElroy
1975 Margaret Mead
1974 Roger Revelle
1973 Leonard M. Rieser
1972 Glenn T. Seaborg
1971 Mina Rees
1970 Athelstan Spilhaus
1969 H. Bentley Glass
1968 Walter Orr Roberts
1967 Don K. Price
1966 Alfred S. Romer
1965 Henry Eyring
1964 Laurence M. Gould
1963 Alan Tower Waterman
1962 Paul Magnus Gross
1961 Thomas Park
1960 Chauncey D. Leake
1959 Paul E. Klopsteg
1958 Wallace R. Brode
1957 Laurence H. Snyder
1956 Paul B. Sears
1955 George W. Beadle
1954 Warren Weaver
1953 Edward U. Condon
1952 Detlev W. Bronk
1951 Kirtley Fletcher Mather
1950 Roger Adams
1949 Elvin C. Stakman
1948 Edmund Ware Sinnott
1947 Harlow Shapley
1946 Charles Franklin Kettering
1945 James B. Conant
1944 Anton Julius Carlson
1943 Isaiah Bowman
1942 Arthur H. Compton
1941 Irving Langmuir
1940 Albert Francis Blakeslee
1939 Walter B. Cannon
1938 Wesley C. Mitchell
1937 George David Birkhoff
1936 Edwin G. Conklin
1935 Karl T. Compton
1934 Edward L. Thorndike
1933 Henry Norris Russell
1932 John Jacob Abel
1931 Franz Boas
1930 Thomas H. Morgan
1929 Robert A. Millikan
1928 Henry Fairfield Osborn
1927 Arthur Amos Noyes
1926 Liberty Hyde Bailey
1925 Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
1924 James McKeen Cattell
1923 Charles Doolittle Walcott
1922 James Playfair McMurrich
1921 Eliakim H. Moore
1920 Leland Ossian Howard
1919 Simon Flexner
1918 John Merle Coulter
1917 Theodore William Richards
1916 Charles R. Van Hise
1915 William Wallace Campbell
1914 Charles W. Eliot
1913 Edmund B. Wilson
1912 Edward Charles Pickering
1911 Charles Edwin Bessey
1910 Albert A. Michelson
1909 David Starr Jordan
1908 Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
1907 Edward Leamington Nichols
1906 William H. Welch
1905 Calvin Milton Woodward
1904 William Gilson Farlow
1903 Carroll Davidson Wright
1902 Asaph Hall
1902 Ira Remsen
1901 Charles Sedgwick Minot
1900 Robert Simpson Woodward
1899 Edward Francis Orton
1899 Marcus Benjamin
1899 Grove Karl Gilbert
1898 Frederic Ward Putnam
1897 William John McGee Acting President
1897 Wolcott Gibbs
1896 Edward Drinker Cope
1896 Theodore Gill
1895 Edward W. Morley
1894 Daniel G. Brinton
1893 William Harkness
1892 Joseph LeConte
1891 Albert Benjamin Prescott
1890 George Lincoln Goodale
1889 Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
1888 John Wesley Powell
1887 Samuel Pierpont Langley
1886 Edward S. Morse
1885 Hubert Anson Newton
1884 John Peter Lesley
1883 Charles Augustus Young
1882 John William Dawson
1881 George Jarvis Brush
1880 Lewis H. Morgan
1879 George Frederick Barker
1878 Othniel Charles Marsh
1877 Simon Newcomb
1876 William Barton Rogers
1875 Julius Erasmus Hilgard
1874 John L. LeConte
1873 Joseph Lovering
1872 J. Lawrence Smith
1871 Asa Gray
1870 William Chauvenet
1870 Thomas Sterry Hunt
1869 John Wells Foster
1868 Benjamin A. Gould
1867 John Strong Newberry
1866 FAP Barnard
1865 Presidency Vacant *
1864 Presidency Vacant *
1863 Presidency Vacant *
1862 Presidency Vacant *
1861 Presidency Vacant *
1860 Isaac Lea
1859 Stephen Alexander
1858 Jeffries Wyman
1857 Jacob Whitman Bailey (Bailey died early in his presidency)
1857 Alexis Caswell
1856 James Hall
1855 John Torrey
1854 James Dwight Dana
1853 Presidency Vacant
1852 Benjamin Peirce
1851 Louis Agassiz
1850 Alexander Dallas Bache
1849 Joseph Henry
1848 William Charles Redfield

Note: Between 1861 and 1865, the American Civil War prevented all activities of society

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He's anti-genius . In: Sarasota Herald-Tribune , January 9, 1947, p. 9. 

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