Past Academy Presidents
| James
Bowdoin |
1780-1791 |
| John Adams |
1791-1814 |
| Edward
Augustus Holyoke |
1814-1820 |
| John Quincy Adams |
1820-1829 |
| Nathaniel
Bowditch |
1829-1838 |
| James Jackson |
1838-1839 |
| John
Pickering |
1839-1846 |
| Jacob Bigelow |
1846-1863 |
| Asa Gray |
1863-1873 |
| Charles Francis Adams |
1873-1880 |
| Joseph
Lovering |
1880-1892 |
| Josiah Parsons Cooke |
1892-1894 |
| Alexander
Agassiz |
1894-1903 |
| William Watson Goodwin |
1903-1908 |
| John Trowbridge |
1908-1915 |
| Henry Pickering Walcott |
1915-1917 |
| Charles Pickering
Bowditch |
1917-1919 |
| Theodore William Richards |
1919-1921 |
| George Foot Moore |
1921-1924 |
| Theodore Lyman |
1924-1927 |
| Edwin Bidwell Wilson |
1927-1931 |
| Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford |
1931-1933 |
| George Howard Parker |
1933-1935 |
| Roscoe Pound |
1935-1937 |
| Dugald Caleb Jackson |
1937-1939 |
| Harlow Shapley |
1939-1944 |
| Howard Mumford Jones |
1944-1951 |
| Edwin Herbert Land |
1951-1954 |
| John Ely Burchard |
1954-1957 |
| Kirtley Fletcher Mather |
1957-1961 |
| Hudson Hoagland |
1961-1964 |
| Paul Abraham Freund |
1964-1967 |
| Talcott Parsons |
1967-1971 |
| Harvey Brooks |
1971-1976 |
| Victor Frederick
Weisskopf |
1976-1979 |
| Milton Katz |
1979-1982 |
| Herman Feshbach |
1982-1986 |
| Edward Hirsch Levi |
1986-1989 |
| Leo Leroy Beranek |
1989-1994 |
| Jaroslav Pelikan |
1994-1997 |
| Daniel C. Tosteson |
1997-2000 |
| James O. Freedman |
2000-2001 |
| Patricia Meyer Spacks |
2001-2006 |
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