Presidents of the Institute

William Barton Rogers, 1862–70, 1879–81

John Daniel Runkle, 1870–78

Francis Amasa Walker,1881–97

James Mason Crafts, 1897–1900

Henry Smith Pritchett, 1900–07

Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, 1909–20

Ernest Fox Nichols, 1921–22

Samuel Wesley Stratton, 1923–30

Karl Taylor Compton, 1930–48

James Rhyne Killian, Jr., 1948–58

Julius Adams Stratton, 1959–66

Howard Wesley Johnson, 1966–71

Jerome Bert Wiesner, 1971–80

Paul Edward Gray, 1980–90

Charles Marstiller Vest, 1990–2004

Susan Hockfield, 2004–