The American Polar Society was founded in 1934 by August Howard.[1][2][3]
Honorary members
Starting in 1936 the following explorers, arctic scientists and geographers have been honored:[2][4]
- David Legge Brainard (1936). He was the first to receive an honorary membership.[5]
- Richard Evelyn Byrd (1938).[6]
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1940).[7]
- Lincoln Ellsworth (1944).[8]
- Frank Debenham (1949). He died in 1965.
- Paul Allman Siple (1957). He died in 1968.
- Louise Arner Boyd (1959).[9]
- Finn Ronne (1960). He died in 1980.
- Jackie Ronne. She died in 2009.[10]
- Bernt Balchen (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 (2006).
- Susan Solomon (2013).