List of Presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In its century & a half history, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has had 18 presidents (16 inaugurated, 1 acting then inaugurated, 1 acting) in its 150-year history (as of 2015[update]).
- William Barton Rogers (1862–1870, 1879–1881)
- John Daniel Runkle (1870–1878)
- Francis Amasa Walker (1881–1897)
- James Crafts (1897–1900)
- Henry Smith Pritchett (1900–1907)
- Arthur Amos Noyes (acting 1907–1909)
- Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1909–1920)
- Elihu Thomson (acting 1920–1921, 1922–1923)
- Ernest Fox Nichols (1921–1922)
- Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923–1930)
- Karl Taylor Compton (1930–1948)
- James Rhyne Killian (1948–1959)
- Julius Adams Stratton (1959–1966)
- Howard Wesley Johnson (1966–1971)
- Jerome Wiesner (1971–1980)
- Paul Edward Gray (1980–1990)
- Charles Marstiller Vest (1990–2004)
- Susan Hockfield (2004–2012)
- L. Rafael Reif (2012–present)
