William Barton Rogers
1862-70 and 1879-81
John Daniel Runkle
1870-1878
Francis Amasa Walker
1881-1897
James Mason Crafts
1897-1900
Henry Smith Pritchett
1900-1907
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin
1909-1920
Ernest Fox Nichols
1921-1922
Samuel Wesley Stratton
1923-1930
Karl Taylor Compton
1930-1948
James Rhyne Killian Jr.
1948-1958
Julius Adams Stratton
1959-1966
Howard Wesley Johnson
1966-1971
Jerome Bert Wiesner
1971-1980
Paul Edward Gray
1980-1990
Charles Marstiller Vest
1990-2004
Susan Hockfield
2004-
For more information, see http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/histories-offices/pres.html
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on December 10, 2003.
