The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest general scientific society, founded on 20 September 1848 in Philadelphia as a reorganization of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, with the meteorologist William Charles Redfield serving as its first president. It publishes the journal Science, one of the world's leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States-based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science was created on September 20, 1848, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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On December 28, 1915, in Columbus, Ohio, at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a group of about 50 people voted to form the Ecological Society of America.
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Rice is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the National Academy of Scie
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Arnold is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Scien
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He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is a member of the Nationa
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In 1981 she was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), serving her one-year term from
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Anderson was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1993, the American Academy of Arts a
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* Rice was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005. She was elected as a fellow of
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Chung was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. A Festschrift in her honor, A
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In 2008, she was elected a fellow of the LSA and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ==Personal life== McConnell-Ginet is
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In 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ==Personal life== Menn was married to
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Lightfoot is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Linguistic Society of Ameri
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She is currently an International Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2019 she was awarded the Joh
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She was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009, and a fellow of the Linguistic
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Woodring was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1925. He was for the academic year 1
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In 1989 Hatcher was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a Fellow of the Geological
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He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society as well as being a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During the last decade,
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He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and an Inaugural Fellow of the America
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She has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, as well as Legacy Fellow of th
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He was elected in 1995 a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1999 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ==References==
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He was elected in 1928 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was elected to the United St
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Geraldine L. Richmond (Wikipedia)
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In 2014, Richmond was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for a term beginning in February 2015.
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Susmita Bose (Wikipedia)
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* 2016, She was elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). * 2016, she received Internatio
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In 2023, Bezanilla was named a fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and in 2026, she was named an Honorary Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bezanilla was the first woman to win t
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In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science dip
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Hulse was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003, and is cited in the American M
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Maria Mitchell (Wikipedia)
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She was also the first woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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