Presidents of The British Science Association
- 2011-12: Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS, FRSE
- 2010-11: David Sainsbury, Lord Sainsbury of Turville
- 2009-10: Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
- 2007-08: Sir David King, Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2000-08
- 2006-07: John Browne, Lord Browne of Madingley
- 2005-06: Frances Cairncross CBE, economist
- 2004-05: Prof Robert Winston, Lord Winston of Hammersmith
- 2003-04: Dame Julia Higgins
- 2002-03: Sir Peter Williams CBE,
- 2000-01: Sir William Stewart, Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 1990-95
- 1999-2000: Anne, Princess Royal
- 1998-99: Sir Richard Sykes, biochemist and Chief Executive from 1993-7 of Glaxo
- 1997-98 Prof Colin Blakemore, neuroscientist
- 1996-97: Sir Derek Roberts CBE, electronics engineer, and Provost of UCL from 1989-99
- 1995-96: Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, geologist and Rector of Imperial College London from 1993-2000
- 1993-94: Dame Anne McLaren, IVF biologist
- 1992-93: Sir David Weatherall, haemotologist
- 1991-92 Sir David Attenborough
- 1990-91: Sir Denis Rooke
- 1989-90: Claus Moser, Baron Moser, Director from 1967-78 of the Central Statistical Office
- 1988-89: Sir Samuel Edwards, physicist
- 1987-88: Sir Walter Bodmer, geneticist
- 1986-87 Sir Kenneth Durham, Chairman from 1982-6 of Unilever
- 1985-86: Prof George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, Nobel Prize winning (1967) chemist
- 1984-85: Prof Sir Hans Kornberg, biochemist
- 1982-83: Sir Basil John Mason CB, Director-General from 1965-83 of the Met Office
- 1980-81: HRH the Duke of Kent
- 1979-80: Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
- 1978-79: Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton OBE,
- 1977-78: Prof Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winning (1964) chemist
- 1976-77: Sir Andrew Huxley, Nobel Prize winning (1963) physiologist, known for discovering nerve action potentials
- 1975-76: John Baker, Baron Baker OBE, structural engineer known for limit state design
- 1973-74: Sir John Kendrew CBE, Nobel Prize winning (1962) biochemist who discovered the structure of myoglobin
- 1969-70: Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Nobel Prize winning (1957) biochemist known for nucleotides and coenzymes
- 1967-68: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, physicist who discovered the cyclic nature of benzene in 1929
- 1964-65: Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nobel Prize winning (1956) chemist
- 1962-63: Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, Vice-Chancellor from 1950-59 of Queen's University Belfast
- 1961-62: Sir John Cockcroft CBE, Nobel Prize winning (1951) physicist
- 1956-57: Sir Raymond Priestley, geologist and Vice-Chancellor from 1938-52 of the University of Birmingham
- 1939-40: Sir Albert Charles Seward, geologist
- 1938-39: Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, physicist and son of nobel prize winning John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- 1937-38: Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, evolutionary biologist
- 1936-37: Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, statistician
- 1935-36: William Whitehead Watts, geologist
- 1934-35: Sir James Hopwood Jeans, astronomer
- 1933-34: Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Nobel Prize winning (1929) biochemist who discovered vitamins
- 1932-33: Sir James Alfred Ewing, physicist and Vice-Chancellor from 1916-29 of the University of Edinburgh
- 1916-19: Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist
- 1915-16: Sir Arthur Schuster, physicist
- 1908-09: Sir Francis Darwin, son of Charles
- 1907-08: Sir David Gill CB, astronomer
- 1906-07: Sir Ray Lankester, zoologist
- 1905-06: Sir George Darwin, older brother of Francis
- 1900-01: Sir William Turner, anatomist and Vice-Chancellor from 1903-16 of the University of Edinburgh
- 1899-1900: Sir Michael Foster, physiologist
- 1897-98: John Evans, archaeologist
- 1896-97: Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
- 1893-94: Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, medical doctor
- 1892-93: Sir Archibald Geikie, geologist
- 1889-90: Sir William Henry Flower CB, anatomist
- 1888-89: Sir Frederick Bramwell, civil engineer
- 1887-88: Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, chemist
- 1886-87: Sir John William Dawson CMG, geologist
- 1883-84: Arthur Cayley, mathematician
- 1881-82: John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
- 1879-80: George James Allman, naturalist
- 1875-76: Philip Sclater, zoologist
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