The American Polar Society was founded in 1934 by August Howard.

Honorary members

Starting in 1936 the following explorers, arctic scientists and geographers have been honored: * David Legge Brainard (1936). He was the first to receive an honorary membership. *

Richard Evelyn Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader cr ...

(1938). *

Vilhjalmur Stefansson Vilhjalmur Stefansson (November 3, 1879 – August 26, 1962) was an Arctic explorer and ethnologist. He was born in Manitoba, Canada. Early life and education Stefansson, born William Stephenson, was born at Arnes, Manitoba, Canada, in 1879. ...

(1940). *

Lincoln Ellsworth Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was an American polar explorer, engineer, surveyor, and author. He led the first Arctic and Antarctic air crossings. Early life Linn Ellsworth was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 12, 1880. His ...

(1944). *

Frank Debenham Frank Debenham, Order of the British Empire, OBE (26 December 1883 – 23 November 1965) was Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Cambridge, Department of Geography, Cambridge University and first director of the Scot ...

(1949). He died in 1965. *

Paul Allman Siple Paul Allman Siple ( ; December 18, 1908 – November 25, 1968) was an American Antarctic explorer and geographer who took part in six Antarctic expeditions, including the two Byrd expeditions of 1928–1930 and 1933–1935, representing the Boy ...

(1957). He died in 1968. *

Louise Arner Boyd Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions. She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately ...

(1959). *

Finn Ronne Finn Ronne (December 20, 1899 – January 12, 1980) was a Norwegian-born U.S. citizen and Antarctic explorer. Background Finn Ronne was born in Horten, in Vestfold county, Norway. His father, Martin Rønne (1861–1932), was a polar explorer ...

(1960). He died in 1980. *

Jackie Ronne Edith Jackie Ronne (October 13, 1919 – June 14, 2009) was an American explorer of Antarctica and the first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition (1947–48). The Ronne Ice Shelf was named by her husband after her ...

. She died in 2009. *

Bernt Balchen Bernt Balchen (23 October 1899 – 17 October 1973) was a Norwegian pioneer polar aviator, navigator, aircraft mechanical engineer and military leader. A Norwegian native, he later became an American citizen and was a recipient of the Disting ...

(1966) * Laurence McKinley Gould (1969) * Thomas Charles Poulter (1973) * Richard B. Black (1979). He died in 1992. * Norman Dane Vaughan (1980) * Lincoln A. Washburn (1981) * Charles F. Passel (1982) * Thomas H. Manning (1983) * Conrad Shinn (1984) * Graham Westbrook Rowley (1985) * Waldo Kampmeier Lyon (1986) * William Robert Anderson (1987) * Joseph Otis Fletcher (1988) * Norbert Untersteiner (1989) * Max C. Brewer (1990) * James Francis Calvert (1991) * Martin Arthur Pomerantz (1992) * James R. Reedy (1993) * Beaumont Buck (1994) * David C. Nutt (1995) * Charles R. Bentley (1996) * Wilford Frank Weeks (1997). He was born in 1929. * Kenneth Utuayuk Toovak (1998) * Robert Hoxie Rutford (1998) * Anthony J. Gow (2004) *

James Van Allen James Alfred Van Allen (September 7, 1914August 9, 2006) was an American space physicist at the University of Iowa. He was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. The Van Allen radiation belts were named af ...

(2006) * Susan Solomon (2013)

References

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