Editors
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
- 1914–1918: Arthur A. Noyes
- 1918–1940: Raymond Pearl
- 1940–1949: Robert A. Millikan
- 1950–1955: Linus Pauling
- 1955–1960: Wendell M. Stanley
- 1960–1968: Saunders Mac Lane
- 1968–1972: John T. Edsall
- 1972–1980: Robert Louis Sinsheimer
- 1980–1984: Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
- 1985–1988: Maxine Singer
- 1988–1991: Igor B. Dawid
- 1991–1995: Lawrence Bogorad
- 1995–2006: Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
- 2006–2011: Randy Schekman
- 2011–present: Inder M. Verma
The first managing editor of the journal was mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson.
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