| 2014-2015 | Angela N. H. Creager |
| 2012-2013 | Lynn K. Nyhart |
| 2010-2011 | Paul Lawrence Farber |
| 2008-2009 | Jane Maienschein |
| 2006-2007 | Joan Cadden |
| 2004-2005 | Michael Sokal |
| 2002-2003 | John Servos |
| 2000-2001 | Ronald Numbers |
| 1998-1999 | Albert Van Helden |
| 1996-1997 | Frederick Gregory |
| 1994-1995 | David C. Lindberg |
| 1992-1993 | Sally Gregory Kohlstedt |
| 1990-1991 | Stephen G. Bush |
| 1988-1989 | Mary Jo Nye |
| 1987 | William Coleman |
| 1985-1986 | Edward Grant |
| 1983-1984 | Gerald Holton |
| 1981-1982 | Frederic L. Holmes |
| 1979-1980 | Robert P. Multhauf |
| 1977-1978 | Richard S. Westfall |
| 1975-1976 | John C. Greene |
| 1973-1974 | Erwin N. Hiebert |
| 1971-1972 | Lynn Townsend White, Jr. |
| 1969-1970 | Thomas Kuhn |
| 1967-1968 | C. D. O’Malley |
| 1965-1966 | Charles Coulston Gillispie |
| 1963-1964 | Marshall Clagett |
| 1961-1962 | I. Bernard Cohen |
| 1957-1960 | Henry Guerlac |
| 1953-1956 | Dorothy Stimson |
| 1951-1952 | Harcourt Brown |
| 1947-1950 | John Farquhar Fulton |
| 1945-1946 | Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
| 1944 | Isaiah Bowman |
| 1943-1944 | Louis Charles Karpinski |
| 1940-1942 | Richard H. Shryock |
| 1939 | Henry E. Sigerist |
| 1937-1938 | Chauncey D. Leake |
| 1935-1936 | Charles Albert Brown, Jr. |
| 1934 | Harvey Williams Cushing |
| 1933 | J. Playfair McMurrich |
| 1932 | Berthold Laufer |
| 1931 | William H. Welch |
| 1930 | Henry Crew |
| 1929 | Lynn Thorndike |
| 1928 | Edgar Fahs Smith |
| 1927 | David Eugene Smith |
| 1926 | James Henry Breasted |
| 1924-1925 | Lawrence Joseph Henderson |