President 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 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 followed by a one-year term as chair of the AAAS Board of Directors.
The 2008 president of AAAS was David Baltimore
, a biologist who shared in the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Baltimore served as president of the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) for nine years before stepping down in 2006. He currently is the Robert A. Millikan
Professor of Biology at Caltech. His term as AAAS president ended on 18 February 2008 at the close of the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.
The 2009 president was James J. McCarthy
, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University
. McCarthy served as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) Working Group II, which assessed impacts of and vulnerabilities to global climate change for the Third IPCC Assessment
(2001). He began his term as AAAS president on 18 February 2008, after the close of the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston
.
The 2010 president was Peter C. Agre who began his term after the close of the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago
.
Note: *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.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
(AAAS), founded in 1848, is the world's largest general scientific
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
society. It serves 262 affiliated societies and academies of science and engineering, representing 10 million individuals worldwide. It is publisher of the journal Science
Science (journal)
Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals....
, 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 followed by a one-year term as chair of the AAAS Board of Directors.
The 2008 president of AAAS was David Baltimore
David Baltimore
David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech...
, a biologist who shared in the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Baltimore served as president of the California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
(Caltech) for nine years before stepping down in 2006. He currently is the Robert A. Millikan
Robert Millikan
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. He served as president of Caltech from 1921 to 1945...
Professor of Biology at Caltech. His term as AAAS president ended on 18 February 2008 at the close of the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.
The 2009 president was James J. McCarthy
James J. McCarthy
James J. McCarthy is a Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard and was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from Feb 2008-Feb 2009....
, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. McCarthy served as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...
(IPCC) Working Group II, which assessed impacts of and vulnerabilities to global climate change for the Third IPCC Assessment
IPCC Third Assessment Report
The IPCC Third Assessment Report, Climate Change 2001, is an assessment of available scientific and socio-economic information on climate change by the IPCC. The IPCC was established in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Programme and the UN's World Meteorological Organization ".....
(2001). He began his term as AAAS president on 18 February 2008, after the close of the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
.
The 2010 president was Peter C. Agre who began his term after the close of the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
.
List of Presidents
| Year(s) | President |
|---|---|
| 2013 | William H. Press William H. Press William H. Press is an astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, and computational biologist. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Other honors include the 1981 Helen B... (scheduled) |
| 2012 | Nina Fedoroff Nina Fedoroff Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff is an American professor at Penn State university known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology. She received in 2006 the National Medal of Science in the field of Biological Sciences, the highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research in the... |
| 2011 | Alice S. Huang Alice S. Huang Alice S. Huang is an American biologist specialized in microbiology and virology. She is Senior Faculty Associate in Biology at the California Institute of Technology, and current President of AAAS.-Early years:Huang was born in Nanchang, the capital city of Jiangxi Province, in 1939... |
| 2010 | Peter Agre Peter Agre Peter Agre is an American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane... |
| 2009 | James J. McCarthy James J. McCarthy James J. McCarthy is a Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard and was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from Feb 2008-Feb 2009.... |
| 2008 | David Baltimore David Baltimore David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech... |
| 2007 | John Holdren John Holdren John Paul Holdren is advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology... |
| 2006 | Gilbert S. Omenn Gil Omenn Gilbert Omenn is Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health at the University of Michigan. He is the director of the UM Center for Computational Medicine & Biology and the Proteomics Alliance for Cancer Research.... |
| 2005 | Shirley Ann Jackson |
| 2004 | Mary Ellen Avery Mary Ellen Avery Mary Ellen Avery is an American pediatrician. In the 1950s, Dr. Avery's pioneering research efforts helped lead to the discovery of the main cause of respiratory distress syndrome in premature babies: her identification of surfactant led to the development of replacement therapy for premature... |
| 2003 | Floyd E. Bloom Floyd E. Bloom Floyd E. Bloom is an American medical researcher specializing in chemical neuroanatomy.He received an A.B., cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 1956 and an M.D., cum laude from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine in 1960... |
| 2002 | Peter H. Raven Peter H. Raven Peter Hamilton Raven is a botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden.-Early life:... |
| 2001 | Mary L. Good Mary L. Good Mary Lowe Good is an inorganic chemist who does industrial research and has worked in government. She received her BS from the University of Central Arkansas and in 1955 received her PhD in from the University of Arkansas... |
| 2000 | Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation.... |
| 1999 | M. R. C. Greenwood M. R. C. Greenwood Mary Rita Cooke Greenwood is the President of the University of Hawaii. She also holds an appointment as a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis and was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Nutrition at the... |
| 1998 | Mildred S. Dresselhaus |
| 1997 | Jane Lubchenco Jane Lubchenco Dr. Jane Lubchenco is a Ukrainian-American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. On March 19, 2009, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first woman to serve as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .While performing duties as head of NOAA, Dr... |
| 1996 | Rita R. Colwell Rita R. Colwell Rita R. Colwell is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. She became the 11th Director of the United States National Science Foundation on August 4, 1998.... |
| 1995 | Francisco J. Ayala Francisco J. Ayala Francisco José Ayala Pereda is a Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year. After graduating from the University of Salamanca, he moved to the US in 1961 to study for... |
| 1994 | Eloise E. Clark Eloise E. Clark Eloise E. ‘Betsy’ Clark is an American biologist, best known for her long service as Assistant Director for Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation.... |
| 1993 | F. Sherwood Rowland |
| 1992 | Leon M. Lederman Leon M. Lederman Leon Max Lederman is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, USA... |
| 1991 | Donald N. Langenberg Donald N. Langenberg Donald Newton Langenberg is a physicist and college professor. He formerly served as chancellor of the University System of Maryland and the University of Illinois, Chicago... |
| 1990 | Richard C. Atkinson Richard C. Atkinson Richard Chatham Atkinson is an American professor of psychology and academic administrator. He is the former president and regent of the University of California system, and former chancellor of U.C... |
| 1989 | Walter E. Massey Walter E. Massey Walter Eugene Massey is an educator, physicist, and business executive. He is the current President of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the former Chairman of Bank of America, replacing Ken Lewis on April 29, 2009... |
| 1988 | Sheila E. Widnall Sheila E. Widnall Sheila Marie Evans Widnall is an American aerospace researcher and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She served as United States Secretary of the Air Force between 1993 and 1997, making her the first female Secretary of the Air Force and first woman to lead an... |
| 1987 | Lawrence Bogorad Lawrence Bogorad Lawrence Bogorad was an American botanist, pioneer of photosynthesis research and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.- External links :* http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/Bogorad/... |
| 1986 | Gerard Piel Gerard Piel Gerard Piel was the publisher of the new Scientific American magazine starting in 1948. He wrote for magazines, including The Nation, and published books on science for the general public.-Biography:... |
| 1985 | David A. Hamburg David A. Hamburg David A. Hamburg is President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he served as president from 1982 to 1997. He also served as the President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Hamburg was... |
| 1984 | Anna J. Harrison Anna J. Harrison Anna Jane Harrison was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College for nearly forty years.-Life:... |
| 1983 | E. Margaret Burbidge |
| 1982 | D. Allan Bromley D. Allan Bromley David Allan Bromley was a Canadian–American physicist, academic administrator and Science Advisor to American president George H. W. Bush. At the time of his death, he had over 500 publications.-Life:... |
| 1981 | Frederick Mosteller |
| 1980 | Kenneth E. Boulding Kenneth E. Boulding Kenneth Ewart Boulding was an economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. He was cofounder of General Systems Theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science. He was... |
| 1979 | Edward E. David Jr. Edward E. David Jr. Edward Emil David Jr. is an American electrical engineer who served as science advisor to President Richard M. Nixon and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology from 1970-1973.-Life and career:... |
| 1977-1978 | Emilio Q. Daddario Emilio Q. Daddario Emilio Quincy Daddario was an American Democratic politician from Connecticut. He served as a member of the 86th through 91st United States Congresses.-Life and career:... |
| 1976 | William D. McElroy William D. McElroy William David McElroy was an American biochemist and academic administrator.-Early years:McElroy was born to William D. McElroy and Ora Shipley in Rogers, Texas... |
| 1975 | Margaret Mead Margaret Mead Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.... |
| 1974 | Roger Revelle Roger Revelle Roger Randall Dougan Revelle was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth's tectonic plates... |
| 1973 | Leonard M. Rieser Leonard M. Rieser Leonard M. Rieser was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later for nuclear disarmament.... |
| 1972 | Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the... |
| 1971 | Mina Rees Mina Rees Mina Spiegel Rees was an American mathematician. She was the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and head of the mathematics department... |
| 1970 | Athelstan Spilhaus Athelstan Spilhaus Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus was a South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He became a US citizen in 1946... |
| 1969 | H. Bentley Glass H. Bentley Glass Hiram Bentley Glass was an American geneticist and noted columnist. Born in China to missionary parents, he attended college at Baylor University in Texas. He then furthered his education at the University of Texas, where he received his Ph.D. degree under the mentorship of geneticist Hermann... |
| 1968 | Walter Orr Roberts Walter Orr Roberts Walter Orr Roberts was an American astronomer and atmospheric physicist. He received his doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University in 1943. He taught online for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in the mid-1980s, and also published an online weekly column entitled "Provocations"... |
| 1967 | Don K. Price Don K. Price Don Krasher Price was an American political scientist who served as the dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1958 to 1977. He was also a professor at Harvard University and the author of a number of books about United States history and government.A native of Middlesboro,... |
| 1966 | Alfred S. Romer |
| 1965 | Henry Eyring Henry Eyring Henry Eyring was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist whose primary contribution was in the study of chemical reaction rates and intermediates.... |
| 1964 | Laurence M. Gould |
| 1963 | Alan T. Waterman Alan Tower Waterman Alan Tower Waterman was an American physicist.Born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, he grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts. His father was a professor of physics at Smith College. Alan also became a physicist, doing his undergraduate and doctoral work at Princeton University, from which he... |
| 1962 | Paul M. Gross Paul M. Gross Paul Magnus Gross was an American chemist and educator, best known for his long tenure as an administrator at Duke University.Gross received a B.S. degree from City College of New York in 1916, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1917 and 1919... |
| 1961 | Thomas Park |
| 1960 | Chauncey D. Leake Chauncey D. Leake Chauncey Depew Leake was an American pharmacologist, medical historian and ethicist. Leake received a bachelor’s degree with majors in biology, chemistry, and philosophy from Princeton University.... |
| 1959 | Paul E. Klopsteg Paul E. Klopsteg Paul Ernest Klopsteg was an American physicist. The asteroid 3520 Klopsteg was named after him and the yearly Klopsteg Memorial Award was founded in his memory.... |
| 1958 | Wallace R. Brode Wallace R. Brode Wallace Reed Brode was an American chemist. He was president of the American Chemical Society in 1969 and of the Optical Society of America in 1961... |
| 1957 | Laurence H. Snyder Laurence H. Snyder Lawrence Hasbrouck Snyder was a pioneer in human genetics and president of the University of Hawaii.Snyder was born in Kingston, New York, the second of five childen. His parents were Christian missionaries who had lived in the Belgian Congo. Graduating from Rutgers University in 1922 with a B.S... |
| 1956 | Paul B. Sears |
| 1955 | George W. Beadle |
| 1954 | Warren Weaver Warren Weaver Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator... |
| 1953 | Edward U. Condon |
| 1952 | Detlev W. Bronk |
| 1951 | Kirtley Fletcher Mather |
| 1950 | Roger Adams Roger Adams Roger Adams was an American organic chemist. He is best-known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids... |
| 1949 | Elvin C. Stakman Elvin C. Stakman -External links:... |
| 1948 | Edmund Ware Sinnott Edmund Ware Sinnott Edmund Ware Sinnott was an American botanist and prolific textbook author. He is best known for his work in plant morphology.-Life:... |
| 1947 | Harlow Shapley Harlow Shapley Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer.-Career:He was born on a farm in Nashville, Missouri, and dropped out of school with only the equivalent of a fifth-grade education... |
| 1946 | C. F. Kettering |
| 1945 | James B. Conant |
| 1944 | Anton J. Carlson |
| 1943 | Isaiah Bowman Isaiah Bowman Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer... |
| 1942 | Arthur H. Compton |
| 1941 | Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his... |
| 1940 | Albert F. Blakeslee |
| 1939 | Walter B. Cannon |
| 1938 | Wesley C. Mitchell |
| 1937 | George D. Birkhoff |
| 1936 | Edwin G. Conklin Edwin Conklin Edwin Grant Conklin was a American biologist and zoologist, born at Waldo Ohio, and educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University... |
| 1935 | Karl T. Compton |
| 1934 | Edward L. Thorndike |
| 1933 | Henry N. Russell |
| 1932 | John Jacob Abel John Jacob Abel John Jacob Abel was a significant American biochemist and pharmacologist.Born near Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1883 from the University of Michigan. In 1891 he founded and chaired the first department of pharmacology in the United States at the University of Michigan... |
| 1931 | Franz Boas Franz Boas Franz Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did... |
| 1930 | Thomas H. Morgan |
| 1929 | Robert A. Millikan |
| 1928 | Henry F. Osborn |
| 1927 | Arthur Amos Noyes Arthur Amos Noyes Arthur Amos Noyes was a U.S. chemist and educator. He served as the acting president of MIT between 1907 and 1909. He received a PhD. in 1890 at Leipzig under the guidance of Wilhelm Ostwald. Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson was one of his famous students. Noyes served as Professor of Chemistry at the... |
| 1926 | Liberty Hyde Bailey Liberty Hyde Bailey Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.-Biography:... |
| 1925 | Michael I. Pupin |
| 1924 | James McKeen Cattell James McKeen Cattell James McKeen Cattell , American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science... |
| 1923 | Charles D. Walcott Charles Doolittle Walcott Charles Doolittle Walcott was an American invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:... |
| 1922 | J. Playfair McMurrich J. Playfair McMurrich James Playfair McMurrich was a Canadian zoologist and academic.Born in Toronto, the son of John McMurrich, McMurrich received a M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1881 and a Ph.D... |
| 1921 | Eliakim H. Moore E. H. Moore Eliakim Hastings Moore was an American mathematician.-Life:Moore, the son of a Methodist minister and grandson of US Congressman Eliakim H. Moore, discovered mathematics through a summer job at the Cincinnati Observatory while in high school. He learned mathematics at Yale University, where he was... |
| 1920 | Leland O. Howard Leland Ossian Howard Leland Ossian Howard, Ph.D., M.D. , was an American entomologist.-Biography:He graduated from Cornell University in 1877. He was later employed by the Department of Agriculture, and became chief of the Bureau of Entomology in 1894... |
| 1919 | Simon Flexner Simon Flexner Simon Flexner, M.D. was a physician, scientist, administrator, and professor of experimental pathology at the University of Pennsylvania . He was the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation... |
| 1918 | John Merle Coulter John Merle Coulter John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. was an American botanist and educator, brother of Stanley Coulter, born at Ningpo, China. He received his education at Hanover College in Indiana. He served in the Rocky Mountains for two years as botanist to the United States Geological Survey... |
| 1917 | Theodore W. Richards |
| 1916 | Charles R. Van Hise Charles R. Van Hise Charles Richard Van Hise, Ph.D. was an American geologist and academic. He served as president of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1903 to 1918.-Life and work:... |
| 1915 | William Wallace Campbell William Wallace Campbell William Wallace Campbell was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy.-Biography:... |
| 1914 | Charles W. Eliot |
| 1913 | Edmund B. Wilson Edmund Beecher Wilson Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell.- Career :... |
| 1912 | E. C. Pickering Edward Charles Pickering Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering.Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations .Pickering attended Boston Latin School, and received his B.S. from... |
| 1911 | Charles E. Bessey Charles Edwin Bessey Charles Edwin Bessey was an American botanist.-Biography:He was born at Milton, Wayne County, Ohio. He graduated in 1869 at the Michigan Agricultural College. Bessey also studied at Harvard University under Asa Gray, in 1872 and in 1875–76. He was professor of botany at the Iowa Agricultural... |
| 1910 | A. A. Michelson |
| 1909 | David Starr Jordan David Starr Jordan David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:... |
| 1908 | Thomas C. Chamberlin |
| 1907 | E. L. Nichols Edward Leamington Nichols Edward Leamington Nichols was an American physicist. He was born of American parentage at Leamington, England, and received his education at Cornell University, graduating in 1875. After Studying at Leipzig, Berlin, and Göttingen he was appointed fellow in physics at Johns Hopkins... |
| 1906 | William H. Welch William H. Welch William Henry Welch, M.D. was an American physician, pathologist, and medical school administrator. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital. William Henry Welch, M.D. (April 8, 1850 - April 30, 1934) was an American physician, pathologist, and medical school... |
| 1905 | Calvin M. Woodward Calvin M. Woodward Calvin Milton Woodward was born at Fitchburg, Massachusetts to Isaac Burnap Woodward and Eliza W. Woodward. He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B... |
| 1904 | W. G. Farlow William Gilson Farlow William Gilson Farlow was an American botanist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard , where, after several years of European study, he became adjunct professor of botany in 1874 and professor of cryptogamic botany in 1879.In 1899 he was president of the American Society of... |
| 1903 | Carroll D. Wright Carroll D. Wright Carroll Davidson Wright was an American statistician.Wright was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He began to study law in 1860, but in 1862 enlisted as a private in the 14th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment to fight the American Civil War... |
| 1902 | Asaph Hall Asaph Hall Asaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars in 1877... |
| 1902 | Ira Remsen Ira Remsen Ira Remsen was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg, discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.-Biography:... |
| 1901 | Charles S. Minot Charles Sedgwick Minot Charles Sedgwick Minot was an American anatomist.-Life:Charles Sedgwick Minot was born December 25, 1852 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His mother was Catharine "Kate" Maria Sedgwick and father was William Minot II... |
| 1900 | R. S. Woodward Robert Simpson Woodward Robert Simpson Woodward was an American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872 and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of... |
| 1899 | Edward Francis Orton Edward Orton, Sr. Edward Francis Baxter Orton, Sr. , a Harvard educated geologist, was the first President of The Ohio State University.... |
| 1899 | Marcus Benjamin Marcus Benjamin Marcus Benjamin was an American editor, born at San Francisco, California, and educated at the Columbia University School of Mines. After following his profession of chemist for several years, he turned to editorial work.Dr... |
| 1899 | Grove Karl Gilbert Grove Karl Gilbert Grove Karl Gilbert , known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist.... |
| 1898 | Frederic Ward Putnam Frederic Ward Putnam Frederic Ward Putnam was an American naturalist and anthropologist.-Biography:... |
| 1897 | W J McGee Acting President |
| 1897 | Wolcott Gibbs Wolcott Gibbs Wolcott Gibbs was an American editor, humorist, theatre critic, playwright and author of short stories, who worked for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 until his death. He is best remembered for his 1936 parody of Time magazine, which skewered the magazine's inverted narrative structure... |
| 1896 | Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen... |
| 1896 | Theodore Gill Theodore Gill Theodore Nicholas Gill was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian.Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with J... |
| 1895 | Edward W. Morley Edward Morley Edward Williams Morley was an American scientist famous for the Michelson–Morley experiment.-Biography:... |
| 1894 | Daniel G. Brinton |
| 1893 | William Harkness William Harkness William Harkness was an astronomer, born at Ecclefechan, Scotland, a son of James Harkness . He was educated at Lafayette College , graduated from the University of Rochester , and studied medicine in New York City. He served as a surgeon in the Union armies during part of the American Civil War... |
| 1892 | Joseph LeConte Joseph LeConte Joseph Le Conte was an American geologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.-Biography:... |
| 1891 | Albert B. Prescott Albert Benjamin Prescott Albert Benjamin Prescott was an American chemist, born in Hastings, New York. He graduated in medicine at the University of Michigan in 1864, and was made assistant professor of organic and applied chemistry in 1870, dean of the school of pharmacy in 1876, and director of the chemical laboratory... |
| 1890 | George L. Goodale George Lincoln Goodale George Lincoln Goodale was an American botanist, born at Saco, Maine. He graduated at Amherst College in 1860 and at Harvard Medical School in 1863, after which he practiced at Portland, Me., until 1867; became professor of natural science and applied chemistry at Bowdoin; and at Harvard was... |
| 1889 | T. C. Mendenhall Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist.-Biography:Mendenhall was born in Hanoverton, Ohio to Stephen Mendenhall, a farmer and carriage-maker,... |
| 1888 | John Wesley Powell John Wesley Powell John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions... |
| 1887 | Samuel P. Langley |
| 1886 | Edward S. Morse Edward S. Morse Edward Sylvester Morse was an American zoologist and orientalist.-Early life:Morse was born in Portland, Maine as the son of a Congregationalist preacher. His mother, who did not share her husband's religious beliefs, encouraged her son's interest in the sciences... |
| 1885 | H. A. Newton Hubert Anson Newton Hubert Anson Newton was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.He was born at Sherburne, New York, and graduated from Yale in 1850. The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists his advisor as Michel Chasles. In 1855, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Yale... |
| 1884 | J. P. Lesley John Peter Lesley Peter Lesley was an American geologist.-Biography:He was born in Philadelphia. It is recorded by Sir Archibald Geikie that he was christened Peter after his father and grandfather, and at first wrote his name Peter Lesley, Jr., but disliking the Christian appellation that had been given to him,... |
| 1883 | Charles A. Young Charles Augustus Young Charles Augustus Young was an American astronomer.He graduated from Dartmouth and later became a professor there in 1865, remaining until 1877 when he went to Princeton.... |
| 1882 | J. W. Dawson John William Dawson Sir John William Dawson, CMG, FRS, FRSC , was a Canadian geologist and university administrator.- Life and work :... |
| 1881 | George J. Brush George Jarvis Brush George Jarvis Brush was an American mineralogist and academic administrator who spent most of his career at Yale University in the Sheffield Scientific School.-Career:... |
| 1880 | Lewis H. Morgan Lewis H. Morgan Lewis Henry Morgan was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist, a railroad lawyer and capitalist. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois... |
| 1879 | George F. Barker George Frederick Barker George Frederick Barker was an American physician and scientist. He graduated at the Yale Scientific School in 1858. He was successively chemical assistant in Harvard Medical School in 1858-59 and 1860–61, professor of chemistry and geology in Wheaton College... |
| 1878 | Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh was an American paleontologist. Marsh was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of news species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies.Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education... |
| 1877 | Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.-Early life:Simon Newcomb was born in the town of... |
| 1876 | William B. Rogers William Barton Rogers William Barton Rogers was a geologist, physicist and educator. He is best known for setting down the founding principles for, advocating for, and finally obtaining the incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1861... |
| 1875 | Julius Erasmus Hilgard Julius Erasmus Hilgard Julius Erasmus Hilgard was a German-American engineer.Julius Erasmus Hilgard was born at Zweibrücken, Rhenish Bavaria, January 7, 1825... |
| 1874 | John L. LeConte |
| 1873 | Joseph Lovering Joseph Lovering Joseph Lovering was an American scientist and educator.He graduated from Harvard in 1833. In 1838 he was named Hollis Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Harvard. He held this chair until 1888, when he was appointed Professor Emeritus, after 50 years service... |
| 1872 | J. Lawrence Smith |
| 1871 | Asa Gray Asa Gray -References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.... |
| 1870 | William Chauvenet William Chauvenet William Chauvenet was an early American educator. A professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying, he was always known and well liked among students and faculty.... |
| 1870 | T. Sterry Hunt |
| 1869 | J. W. Foster John Wells Foster John Wells Foster was an American geologist and paleontologist, born at Brimfield, Massachusetts. He graduated at Wesleyan University in 1834, moved to Ohio, studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Zanesville... |
| 1868 | Benjamin A. Gould |
| 1867 | J. S. Newberry John Strong Newberry John Strong Newberry was a American geologist, physician, explorer, author, and a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.... |
| 1866 | F. A. P. Barnard |
| 1865 | Presidency Vacant* |
| 1864 | Presidency Vacant* |
| 1863 | Presidency Vacant* |
| 1862 | Presidency Vacant* |
| 1861 | Presidency Vacant* |
| 1860 | Isaac Lea Isaac Lea Isaac Lea was an American conchologist, geologist, and businessman, who was born in Wilmington, Delaware.-Life:... |
| 1859 | Stephen Alexander Stephen Alexander Stephen Todd Alexander is an American football tight end who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Washington Redskins in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oklahoma.Alexander was selected to the Pro Bowl while with the Redskins in 2000... |
| 1858 | Jeffries Wyman Jeffries Wyman Jeffries Wyman was an American naturalist and anatomist, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Wyman died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire of a pulmonary hemorrhage.-Career:... |
| 1857 | Jacob Whitman Bailey Jacob Whitman Bailey Jacob Whitman Bailey was an American naturalist, known as the pioneer in microscopic research in America. He was born in Auburn, Mass., and in 1832 graduated at West Point, where, after 1834, he was successively assistant professor, acting professor, and professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and... Note: Bailey died on Feb. 26, 1857, at the beginning of his term of office as Association President. |
| 1857 | Alexis Caswell Alexis Caswell Alexis Caswell was an American educator, born in Taunton, Massachusetts. He graduated Brown University in 1822, and entered the Baptist ministry.... |
| 1856 | James Hall James Hall (paleontologist) James Hall was an American geologist and paleontologist. He was a noted authority on stratigraphy and had an influential role in the development of American paleontology.-Early life:... |
| 1855 | John Torrey |
| 1854 | James D. Dana James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.-Early life and career:... |
| 1853 | Presidency Vacant |
| 1852 | Benjamin Peirce Benjamin Peirce Benjamin Peirce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics.... |
| 1851 | Louis Agassiz Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel... |
| 1850 | Alexander Dallas Bache Alexander Dallas Bache Alexander Dallas Bache was an American physicist, scientist and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey mapping of the United States coastline.-Biography:... |
| 1849 | Joseph Henry Joseph Henry Joseph Henry was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as a founding member of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was highly regarded... |
| 1848 | William C. Redfield |
Note: *Between 1861 and 1865 the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
created political pressures that led to the indefinite postponement of all AAAS events during that period. See AAAS history for more information.