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Celebrating 125 Years of the AAS: 1899 – 2024
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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

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of C. Megan Urry, AAS President, 2014-2016

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Anneila Sargent, AAS President, 2000-2002

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Robert Gehrz, AAS President, 1998-2000

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Andrea K. Dupree, AAS President, 1996-1998

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Frank Shu, AAS President, 1994-1996

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Donald Osterbrock, AAS President, 1988-1990

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Bernard Burke, AAS President, 1986-1988

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Maarten Schmidt, AAS President, 1984-1986

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Robert Kraft, AAS President, 1974-1976

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Martin Schwarzschild, AAS President, 1970-1972

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Albert Whitford, AAS President, 1967-1970

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Gerald Clemence, AAS President, 1958-1960

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Paul Merrill, AAS President, 1956-1958

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Donald Menzel, AAS President, 1954-1956

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Robert McMath, AAS President, 1952-1954

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Alfred Joy, AAS President, 1949-1952

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Harlow Shapley, AAS President, 1943-1946

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Robert Aitken, AAS President, 1937-1940

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Henry Norris Russell, AAS President, 1934-1937

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Walter Sydney Adams, AAS President, 1931-1934

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Frank Schlesinger, AAS President, 1919-1922

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents
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AAS meeting in Toronto, Canada; Black Holes briefing.

Photo by David Devorkin, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Thomas Dame at the 189th AAS meeting.

Photo courtesy of James Cornell, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a picture at the 153rd meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 153rd meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS meeting, date and place not known.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 114th meeting held at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

JY Studio, Fairbanks, Alaska, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Roman Collection

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 108th meeting held on Nantucket Island.

Photo by Bill Haddon, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 106th meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 105th meeting held at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh.

Photograph by Joseph L. Murphy, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Members sit in an auditorium at the 104th AAS meeting held at Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio.

Rebman Photo Service, Cleveland, OH, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection

AAS members and their families pose for a picture at the 101st meeting, held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

Sky and Telescope; University of Florida, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Stuart Goldman

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 100th meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

Photo by James K. Ufford, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 95th meeting held in Berkeley.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 94th meeting held at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Dept. of Photography, Ohio State University, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 93rd meeting held in Troy, New York.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 91st meeting held in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 90th meeting held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ken Spain Photography, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 89th meeting held in Boulder, Colorado.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 88th meeting held at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 86th meeting held at the Case Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.

Photographs by Howard Studios, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 83rd meeting, which was also the 50th anniversary of the Kirkwood Observatory.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Roman Collection

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 82nd meeting held in Tucson, Arizona.

Photograph by Ray Manley, Western Ways, Tucson, AZ, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Individuals at the 81st AAS meeting held in Ottawa shake hands.

The Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at their 75th meeting held at Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 62nd meeting held in Berkeley, California.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a picture at the 60th meeting held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Rosstockton, Ann Arbor, MI, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 59th meeting held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 58th meeting held in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS meeting

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS meeting

Photograph by Pasachoff, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS meeting in Washington, DC, date unknown

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 45th meeting in New Haven, Connecticut.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture during the 39th meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1927.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 23rd meeting held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Attendees of the 22nd AAS meeting at the Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Collection

AAS members at the 19th meeting wait to have their formal group picture taken in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton near San Jose, California during their 18th meeting in 1915.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Lick Observatory. AAS lunch on Mt. Hamilton in 1915.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Collection

Joint AAS-ASP meeting, Berkeley, California.

Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, University of California-Santa Cruz, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at their 14th meeting, held at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives; Shapley Collection

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 12th meeting held in Ottawa.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 10th meeting held in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
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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

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of C. Megan Urry, AAS President, 2014-2016

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Anneila Sargent, AAS President, 2000-2002

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Robert Gehrz, AAS President, 1998-2000

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Andrea K. Dupree, AAS President, 1996-1998

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Frank Shu, AAS President, 1994-1996

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Donald Osterbrock, AAS President, 1988-1990

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Bernard Burke, AAS President, 1986-1988

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Maarten Schmidt, AAS President, 1984-1986

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Robert Kraft, AAS President, 1974-1976

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Martin Schwarzschild, AAS President, 1970-1972

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Albert Whitford, AAS President, 1967-1970

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Gerald Clemence, AAS President, 1958-1960

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Paul Merrill, AAS President, 1956-1958

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Donald Menzel, AAS President, 1954-1956

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Robert McMath, AAS President, 1952-1954

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Alfred Joy, AAS President, 1949-1952

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Harlow Shapley, AAS President, 1943-1946

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Robert Aitken, AAS President, 1937-1940

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Henry Norris Russell, AAS President, 1934-1937

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Walter Sydney Adams, AAS President, 1931-1934

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents

Portrait of Frank Schlesinger, AAS President, 1919-1922

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gallery of Member Society Presidents
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Explore Photos from Our History

AAS meeting in Toronto, Canada; Black Holes briefing.

Photo by David Devorkin, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Thomas Dame at the 189th AAS meeting.

Photo courtesy of James Cornell, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a picture at the 153rd meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 153rd meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS meeting, date and place not known.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 114th meeting held at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

JY Studio, Fairbanks, Alaska, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Roman Collection

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 108th meeting held on Nantucket Island.

Photo by Bill Haddon, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 106th meeting held in Mexico City, Mexico.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 105th meeting held at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh.

Photograph by Joseph L. Murphy, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Members sit in an auditorium at the 104th AAS meeting held at Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio.

Rebman Photo Service, Cleveland, OH, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection

AAS members and their families pose for a picture at the 101st meeting, held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

Sky and Telescope; University of Florida, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Gift of Stuart Goldman

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 100th meeting held in Madison, Wisconsin.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

Photo by James K. Ufford, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 95th meeting held in Berkeley.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 94th meeting held at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Dept. of Photography, Ohio State University, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 93rd meeting held in Troy, New York.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 91st meeting held in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 90th meeting held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ken Spain Photography, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 89th meeting held in Boulder, Colorado.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 88th meeting held at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 86th meeting held at the Case Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.

Photographs by Howard Studios, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 83rd meeting, which was also the 50th anniversary of the Kirkwood Observatory.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Roman Collection

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 82nd meeting held in Tucson, Arizona.

Photograph by Ray Manley, Western Ways, Tucson, AZ, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Individuals at the 81st AAS meeting held in Ottawa shake hands.

The Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at their 75th meeting held at Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 62nd meeting held in Berkeley, California.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a picture at the 60th meeting held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Rosstockton, Ann Arbor, MI, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 59th meeting held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 58th meeting held in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS meeting

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS meeting

Photograph by Pasachoff, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS meeting in Washington, DC, date unknown

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at the 45th meeting in New Haven, Connecticut.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture during the 39th meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1927.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 23rd meeting held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Attendees of the 22nd AAS meeting at the Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Collection

AAS members at the 19th meeting wait to have their formal group picture taken in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton near San Jose, California during their 18th meeting in 1915.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Lick Observatory. AAS lunch on Mt. Hamilton in 1915.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Collection

Joint AAS-ASP meeting, Berkeley, California.

Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, University of California-Santa Cruz, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members pose for a group picture at their 14th meeting, held at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives; Shapley Collection

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 12th meeting held in Ottawa.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

AAS members and their families pose for a group picture at the 10th meeting held in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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.

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
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