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Dara Norman, AAS President, 2024-2026
Dara Norman
Kelsey Johnson, AAS President, 2022-2024
Kelsey Johnson
Paula Szkody, AAS President, 2020-2022
Paula Szkody
Megan Donahue, AAS President, 2018-2020
Megan Donahue
Portrait of Christine Jones Forman, AAS President, 2016-2018
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Portrait of C. Megan Urry, AAS President, 2014-2016
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Portrait of Anneila Sargent, AAS President, 2000-2002
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Portrait of Robert Gehrz, AAS President, 1998-2000
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Portrait of Andrea K. Dupree, AAS President, 1996-1998
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Portrait of Frank Shu, AAS President, 1994-1996
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Portrait of Donald Osterbrock, AAS President, 1988-1990
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Portrait of Bernard Burke, AAS President, 1986-1988
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Portrait of Maarten Schmidt, AAS President, 1984-1986
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Portrait of Robert Kraft, AAS President, 1974-1976
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Portrait of Martin Schwarzschild, AAS President, 1970-1972
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Portrait of Albert Whitford, AAS President, 1967-1970
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Portrait of Gerald Clemence, AAS President, 1958-1960
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Portrait of Paul Merrill, AAS President, 1956-1958
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Portrait of Donald Menzel, AAS President, 1954-1956
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Portrait of Robert McMath, AAS President, 1952-1954
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Alfred Joy, AAS President, 1949-1952
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Portrait of Harlow Shapley, AAS President, 1943-1946
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Portrait of Robert Aitken, AAS President, 1937-1940
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Portrait of Henry Norris Russell, AAS President, 1934-1937
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Portrait of Walter Sydney Adams, AAS President, 1931-1934
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Portrait of Frank Schlesinger, AAS President, 1919-1922
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AAS meeting in Toronto, Canada; Black Holes briefing.
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Thomas Dame at the 189th AAS meeting.
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AAS members pose for a picture at the 153rd meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.
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AAS members pose for a group picture at the 153rd meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.
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AAS meeting, date and place not known.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 114th meeting held at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 113th meeting held at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 108th meeting held on Nantucket Island.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 106th meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 105th meeting held at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh.
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Members sit in an auditorium at the 104th AAS meeting held at Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio.
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AAS members and their families pose for a picture at the 101st meeting, held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 100th meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 97th meeting, held at the Harvard College Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 95th meeting held in Berkeley.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 94th meeting held at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 93rd meeting held in Troy, New York.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 91st meeting held in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 90th meeting held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 89th meeting held in Boulder, Colorado.
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AAS members pose for a group picture at the 88th meeting held at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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AAS members pose for a group picture at the 86th meeting held at the Case Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 83rd meeting, which was also the 50th anniversary of the Kirkwood Observatory.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 82nd meeting held in Tucson, Arizona.
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Individuals at the 81st AAS meeting held in Ottawa shake hands.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at their 75th meeting held at Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 62nd meeting held in Berkeley, California.
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AAS members pose for a picture at the 60th meeting held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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AAS members pose for a group picture at the 59th meeting held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 58th meeting held in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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AAS meeting
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AAS meeting
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AAS meeting in Washington, DC, date unknown
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AAS members pose for a group picture at the 45th meeting in New Haven, Connecticut.
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AAS members pose for a group picture during the 39th meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1927.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 23rd meeting held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Attendees of the 22nd AAS meeting at the Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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AAS members at the 19th meeting wait to have their formal group picture taken in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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AAS members pose for a group picture at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton near San Jose, California during their 18th meeting in 1915.
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Lick Observatory. AAS lunch on Mt. Hamilton in 1915.
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Joint AAS-ASP meeting, Berkeley, California.
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Some attendees of the 17th meeting of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America visiting Yerkes Observatory. The meeting was held at Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 25-28 August 1914.
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AAS members pose for a group picture at their 14th meeting, held at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 12th meeting held in Ottawa.
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Members of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America pose for a group picture at their 11th meeting, held at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge.
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AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 10th meeting held in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
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Second Conference of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, Harvard College Observatory.
Wellesley College Archives, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Group shot of the attendees at the Yerkes Observatory dedication in 1897; also the first conference of astronomers and astrophysicists.
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