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American Polar Society

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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 (1938).
  • Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1940).
  • Lincoln Ellsworth (1944).
  • Frank Debenham (1949). He died in 1965.
  • Paul Allman Siple (1957). He died in 1968.
  • Louise Arner Boyd (1959).
  • Finn Ronne (1960).
  • 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 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, Sr. (1998).
  • Robert Hoxie Rutford (1998).
  • Anthony J. Gow (2004).
  • James Van Allen (2006).

    • References

    American Polar Society Wikipedia
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