American Polar Society

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). He died in 1980.
 * Jackie Ronne. She died in 2009.
 * 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).