Deceased Former Editors

Roger Adams
1889 – 1971
U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Editor, Director
Homer Adkins
1892 – 1949
University of Wisconsin
Editor, Director
Werner E. Bachmann
1901 – 1951
University of Michigan
Editor
John E. Baldwin
1937 – 2024
Syracuse University
Editor
Peter Beak
1936 – 2021
U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Editor, Director 1988 – 1997
A. H. Blatt
1903 – 1986
Queens College
Editor, Director
Robert Bittman
1941 – 2014
Queens College
Editor
Virgil Boekelheide
1919 – 2003
University of Oregon
Editor, Director
George A. Boswell, Jr.
1932 – 2015
DuPont Company
Editor
Theodore L. Cairns
1914 – 1994
DuPont Company
Editor, Director
Arthur C. Cope
1909 – 1966
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Editor, Director
Donald J. Cram
1919 – 2001
U. of California, Los Angeles
Editor, Director
David Y. Curtin
1920 – 2011
U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Editor, Director
William G. Dauben
1919 – 1997
University of California, Berkeley
Editor, Director
Louis F. Fieser
1899 – 1977
Harvard University
Editor
Heinz Gschwend
1936 – 2019
Ciba Pharmaceutical
Editor
Richard F. Heck
1931 – 2015
University of Delaware
Editor
Ralph F. Hirschmann
1922 – 2009
Merck
Editor, Director
Herbert O. House
1929 – 2013
MIT, Georgia Tech
Editor, Director
John R. Johnson
1900 – 1983
Cornell University
Editor
Robert M. Joyce
1916 – 2002
DuPont Company
Editor, Director
Robert C. Kelly
1939 – 2022
Upjohn/Pharmacia
Editor 1988 – 1998
Andrew S. Kende
1932 – 2018
University of Rochester
Editor, Director
Willy Leimgruber
1930 – 1981
Hoffmann-LaRoche
Editor, Director
Frank C. McGrew
1914 – 1986
DuPont Company
Editor, Director
Blaine C. McKusick
1918 – 2005
DuPont Company
Editor, Director
Jerrold Meinwald
1927 – 2018
Cornell University
Editor, Director
Carl Niemann
1908 – 1964
California Institute of Technology
Editor, Director
Leo A. Paquette
1934 – 2019
The Ohio State University
Editor, Director
Gary H. Posner
1943 – 2018
Johns Hopkins University
Editor
Hans Reich
1943 – 2020
University of Wisconsin
Editor
Amos B. Smith, III
1944 – 2025
University of Pennsylvania
Editor 1987–2006
Director 1995–2021
Harold R. Snyder
1910 – 1994
U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Editor
Milán Uskokovic
1924 – 2015
Hoffmann-LaRoche
Editor
Boris Weinstein
1930 – 1983
University of Washington
Editor, Director
James White
1935 – 2020
Oregon State University
Editor