William McPherson (university president)

William McPherson (July 2, 1864 – October 2, 1951) was the acting President of The Ohio State University from July 1, 1938 to March 1, 1940. A chemistry laboratory at Ohio State is named for him.

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Presidents of the American Chemical Society

1876–1900	John W. Draper (1876) J. Lawrence Smith (1877) Samuel W. Johnson (1878) T. Sterry Hunt (1879) Frederick A. Genth (1880) Charles F. Chandler (1881) John W. Mallet (1882) James C. Booth (1883) Albert B. Prescott (1886) Charles Anthony Goessmann (1887) T. Sterry Hunt (1888) Charles F. Chandler (1889) Henry B. Nason (1890) George F. Barker (1891) George C. Caldwell (1892) Harvey W. Wiley (1893) Edgar Fahs Smith (1895) Charles B. Dudley (1896) Charles E. Munroe (1898) Edward W. Morley (1899) William McMurtrie (1900)

1901–1925	Frank W. Clarke (1901) Ira Remsen (1902) John H. Long (1903) Arthur Amos Noyes (1904) Francis P. Venable (1905) William F. Hillebrand (1906) Marston T. Bogert (1907) Willis R. Whitney (1909) Wilder D. Bancroft (1910) Alexander Smith (1911) Arthur D. Little (1912) Theodore W. Richards (1914) Charles H. Herty (1915) Julius Stieglitz (1917) William H. Nichols (1918) William A. Noyes (1920) Edgar Fahs Smith (1921) Edward C. Franklin (1923) Leo H. Baekeland (1924) James Flack Norris (1925)

1926–1950	George D. Rosengarten (1927) Samuel W. Parr (1928) Irving Langmuir (1929) William McPherson (1930) Moses Gomberg (1931) L.V. Redman (1932) Arthur B. Lamb (1933) Charles L. Reese (1934) Roger Adams (1935) Edward Bartow (1936) Edward R. Weidlein (1937) Frank C. Whitmore (1938) Charles A. Kraus (1939) Samuel C. Lind (1940) William Lloyd Evans (1941) Harry N. Holmes (1942) Per K. Frolich (1943) Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1944) Carl S. Marvel (1945) Bradley Dewey (1946) W. Albert Noyes, Jr. (1947) Charles A. Thomas (1948) Linus Pauling (1949) Ernest H. Volwiler (1950)

1951–1975	N. Howell Funnan (1951) Edgar C. Britton (1952) Farrington Daniels (1953) Harry L. Fisher (1954) Joel H. Hildebrand (1955) John C. Warner (1956) Roger J. Williams (1957) Clifford F. Rassweiler (1958) John C. Bailar, Jr. (1959) Albert L. Elder (1960) Arthur C. Cope (1961) Karl Folkers (1962) Henry Eyring (1963) Maurice H. Arveson (1964) Charles C. Price (1965) William J. Sparks (1966) Charles G. Overberger (1967) Robert W. Cairns (1968) Wallace R. Brode (1969) Byron Riegel (1970) Melvin Calvin (1971) Max Tishler (1972) Alan C. Nixon (1973) Bernard S. Friedman (1974) William J. Bailey (1975)

1976–2000	Glenn T. Seaborg (1976) Henry A. Hill (1977) Anna J. Harrison (1978) Gardner W. Stacy (1979) James D. D'Ianni (1980) Albert C. Zettlemoyer (1981) Robert W. Parry (1982) Fred Basolo (1983) Warren D. Niederhauser (1984) Ellis K. Fields (1985) George C. Pimentel (1986) Mary L. Good (1987) Gordon L. Nelson (1988) Clayton F. Callis (1989) Paul G. Gassman (1990) S. Allen Heininger (1991) Ernest L. Eliel (1992) Helen M. Free (1993) Ned D. Heindel (1994) Brian M. Rushton (1995) Ronald Breslow (1996) Paul S. Anderson (1997) Paul H.L. Walter (1998) Edel Wasserman (1999) Daryle H. Busch (2000)

2001–present	Attila E. Pavlath (2001) Eli M. Pearce (2002) Elsa Reichmanis (2003) Charles P. Casey (2004) William F. Carroll, Jr. (2005) Elizabeth Ann Nalley (2006) Catherine T. Hunt (2007) Bruce E. Bursten (2008) Thomas H. Lane (2009) Joseph Francisco (2010) Nancy B. Jackson (2011) Bassam Z. Shakhashiri (2012) Marinda Li Wu (2013) Thomas J. Barton (2014) Diane Grob-Schmidt (2015) Donna J. Nelson (2016)

Presidents of Ohio State University

Orton W. Q. Scott W. H. Scott Canfield Thompson Rightmire McPherson Bevis Fawcett Enarson Jennings Gee Sisson Kirwan Jennings Holbrook Alutto Gee Alutto Drake

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