President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), founded in 1848, is the world's largest general scientific society. It serves 262 affiliated societies and academies of science and engineering, representing 10 million individuals worldwide. It is publisher of the journal Science, which has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world and an estimated total readership of 1 million. AAAS fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; communication; and more. It is a non-profit organization, with membership open to everyone.
AAAS presidents serve a one-year term, beginning in mid-February at the close of the AAAS Annual Meeting. In accordance with the convention used by the AAAS, presidents are referenced based on the year in which they left office. The presidential term is preceded by a one-year term as president-elect, and followed by a one-year term as chair of the AAAS Board of Directors.
List of Presidents
Presidents of the AAAS, 1848-2016
- 2016: Geraldine L. Richmond (current)
- 2015: Gerald 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: M. R. C. 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.
- 1977-1978: 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 T. Waterman
- 1962: Paul M. 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 [1]
- 1946: C. F. Kettering
- 1945: James B. Conant
- 1944: Anton J. Carlson
- 1943: Isaiah Bowman
- 1942: Arthur H. Compton
- 1941: Irving Langmuir
- 1940: Albert F. Blakeslee
- 1939: Walter B. Cannon
- 1938: Wesley C. Mitchell
- 1937: George D. Birkhoff
- 1936: Edwin G. Conklin
- 1935: Karl T. Compton
- 1934: Edward L. Thorndike
- 1933: Henry N. Russell
- 1932: John Jacob Abel
- 1931: Franz Boas
- 1930: Thomas H. Morgan
- 1929: Robert A. Millikan
- 1928: Henry F. Osborn
- 1927: Arthur Amos Noyes
- 1926: Liberty Hyde Bailey
- 1925: Michael I. Pupin
- 1924: James McKeen Cattell
- 1923: Charles D. Walcott
- 1922: J. Playfair McMurrich
- 1921: Eliakim H. Moore
- 1920: Leland O. Howard
- 1919: Simon Flexner
- 1918: John Merle Coulter
- 1917: Theodore W. Richards
- 1916: Charles R. Van Hise
- 1915: William Wallace Campbell
- 1914: Charles W. Eliot
- 1913: Edmund B. Wilson
- 1912: E. C. Pickering
- 1911: Charles E. Bessey
- 1910: Albert A. Michelson
- 1909: David Starr Jordan
- 1908: Thomas C. Chamberlin
- 1907: E. L. Nichols
- 1906: William H. Welch
- 1905: Calvin M. Woodward
- 1904: W. G. Farlow
- 1903: Carroll D. Wright
- 1902: Asaph Hall
- 1902: Ira Remsen
- 1901: Charles S. Minot
- 1900: R. S. Woodward
- 1899: Edward Francis Orton
- 1899: Marcus Benjamin
- 1899: Grove Karl Gilbert
- 1898: Frederic Ward Putnam
- 1897: W J 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 B. Prescott
- 1890: George L. Goodale
- 1889: T. C. Mendenhall
- 1888: John Wesley Powell
- 1887: Samuel P. Langley
- 1886: Edward S. Morse
- 1885: H. A. Newton
- 1884: J. P. Lesley
- 1883: Charles A. Young
- 1882: J. W. Dawson
- 1881: George J. Brush
- 1880: Lewis H. Morgan
- 1879: George F. Barker
- 1878: Othniel Charles Marsh
- 1877: Simon Newcomb
- 1876: William B. Rogers
- 1875: Julius Erasmus Hilgard
- 1874: John L. LeConte
- 1873: Joseph Lovering
- 1872: J. Lawrence Smith
- 1871: Asa Gray
- 1870: William Chauvenet
- 1870: T. Sterry Hunt
- 1869: J. W. Foster
- 1868: Benjamin A. Gould
- 1867: J. S. Newberry
- 1866: F. A. P. 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
- 1857: Alexis Caswell
- 1856: James Hall
- 1855: John Torrey
- 1854: James D. Dana
- 1853: Presidency Vacant
- 1852: Benjamin Peirce
- 1851: Louis Agassiz
- 1850: Alexander Dallas Bache
- 1849: Joseph Henry
- 1848: William C. Redfield
Notes:
- Jacob Whitman Bailey died on February 26, 1857, at the beginning of his term of office as Association President.
- Between 1861 and 1865 the American Civil War created political pressures that led to the indefinite postponement of all AAAS events during that period. See AAAS history for more information.
References
- ↑ "He's anti-genius". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Jan 9, 1947. p. 9.