Presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, founded in 1848) 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
1848: William C. Redfield 1849: Joseph Henry 1850: Alexander Dallas Bache 1851: Louis Agassiz 1852: Benjamin Peirce 1853: Presidency Vacant 1854: James D. Dana 1855: John Torrey 1856: James Hall 1857: Alexis Caswell 1857: Jacob Whitman Bailey 1858: Jeffries Wyman 1859: Stephen Alexander 1860: Isaac Lea 1861-5: Presidency vacant 1866: F. A. P. Barnard 1867: J. S. Newberry 1868: Benjamin A. Gould 1869: J. W. Foster 1870: T. Sterry Hunt 1870: William Chauvenet 1871: Asa Gray 1872: J. Lawrence Smith 1873: Joseph Lovering 1874: John L. LeConte 1875: Julius Erasmus Hilgard 1876: William B. Rogers 1877: Simon Newcomb 1878: Othniel Charles Marsh 1879: George F. Barker 1880: Lewis H. Morgan 1881: George J. Brush 1882: J. W. Dawson 1883: Charles A. Young 1884: J. P. Lesley 1885: H. A. Newton 1886: Edward S. Morse 1887: Samuel P. Langley 1888: John Wesley Powell 1889: T. C. Mendenhall 1890: George L. Goodale 1891: Albert B. Prescott 1892: Joseph LeConte 1893: William Harkness 1894: Daniel G. Brinton 1895: Edward W. Morley 1896: Theodore Gill 1896: Edward Drinker Cope 1897: Oliver Wolcott Gibbs 1897: W J McGee (Acting President) 1898: Frederic Ward Putnam 1899: Grove Karl Gilbert 1899: Marcus Benjamin 1899: Edward Francis Orton 1900: R. S. Woodward 1901: Charles S. Minot 1902: Ira Remsen 1902: Asaph Hall 1903: Carroll D. Wright 1904: W. G. Farlow 1905: Calvin M. Woodward 1906: William H. Welch 1907: E. L. Nichols 1908: Thomas C. Chamberlin 1909: David Starr Jordan 1910: Albert A. Michelson 1911: Charles E. Bessey 1912: E. C. Pickering 1913: Edmund B. Wilson 1914: Charles W. Eliot 1915: William Wallace Campbell 1916: Charles R. Van Hise 1917: Theodore W. Richards 1918: John Merle Coulter 1919: Simon Flexner 1920: Leland O. Howard 1921: Eliakim H. Moore 1922: J. Playfair McMurrich 1923: Charles D. Walcott 1924: James McKeen Cattell 1925: Michael I. Pupin 1926: Liberty Hyde Bailey 1927: Arthur Amos Noyes 1928: Henry F. Osborn 1929: Robert A. Millikan 1930: Thomas H. Morgan 1931: Franz Boas 1932: John Jacob Abel 1933: Henry N. Russell 1934: Edward L. Thorndike 1935: Karl T. Compton 1936: Edwin G. Conklin 1937: George D. Birkhoff 1938: Wesley C. Mitchell 1939: Walter B. Cannon 1940: Albert F. Blakeslee 1941: Irving Langmuir 1942: Arthur H. Compton 1943: Isaiah Bowman 1944: Anton J. Carlson 1945: James B. Conant 1946: C. F. Kettering 1947: Harlow Shapley 1948: Edmund Ware Sinnott 1949: Elvin C. Stakman 1950: Roger Adams 1951: Kirtley Fletcher Mather 1952: Detlev W. Bronk 1953: Edward U. Condon 1954: Warren Weaver 1955: George W. Beadle 1956: Paul B. Sears 1957: Laurence H. Snyder 1958: Wallace R. Brode 1959: Paul E. Klopsteg 1960: Chauncey D. Leake 1961: Thomas Park 1962: Paul M. Gross 1963: Alan T. Waterman 1964: Laurence M. Gould 1965: Henry Eyring 1966: Alfred S. Romer 1967: Don K. Price 1968: Walter Orr Roberts 1969: H. Bentley Glass 1970: Athelstan Spilhaus 1971: Mina Rees 1972: Glenn T. Seaborg 1973: Leonard M. Rieser 1974: Roger Revelle 1975: Margaret Mead 1976: William D. McElroy 1977–1978: Emilio Q. Daddario 1979: Edward E. David Jr. 1980: Kenneth E. Boulding 1981: Frederick Mosteller 1982: D. Allan Bromley 1983: E. Margaret Burbidge 1984: Anna J. Harrison 1985: David A. Hamburg 1986: Gerard Piel 1987: Lawrence Bogorad 1988: Sheila E. Widnall 1989: Walter E. Massey 1990: Richard C. Atkinson 1991: Donald N. Langenberg 1992: Leon M. Lederman 1993: F. Sherwood Rowland 1994: Eloise E. Clark 1995: Francisco J. Ayala 1996: Rita R. Colwell 1997: Jane Lubchenco 1998: Mildred S. Dresselhaus 1999: M. R. C. Greenwood 2000: Stephen Jay Gould 2001: Mary L. Good 2002: Peter H. Raven 2003: Floyd E. Bloom 2004: Mary Ellen Avery 2005: Shirley Ann Jackson 2006: Gilbert S. Omenn 2007: John Holdren 2008: David Baltimore 2009: James J. McCarthy 2010: Peter Agre 2011: Alice S. Huang 2012: Nina Fedoroff 2013: William H. Press 2014: Phillip A. Sharp 2015: Gerald Fink 2016: Geraldine L. Richmond 2017: Barbara A. Schaal 2018: Susan Hockfield 2019: Margaret Hamburg 2020: Steven Chu 2021: Claire Fraser 2022: Gilda A. Barabino 2023: Keith Yamamoto 2024: Willie E. May 2025: Theresa A. Maldonado
Notes: Jacob Whitman Bailey died on 26 February 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
External links List of Presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science website