The American Association for the Advancement of Science is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom
William T. Golden Center for Science and Engineering
Washington, D.C., office of the AAAS
AAAS officers and senior officials in 1947. Left to right, standing: Sinnott, Baitsell, Payne, Lark-Horovitz, Miles, Stakman; sitting: Carlson, Mather, Moulton, Shapley.
Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the mid-twentieth century.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
…of their time. Among them: explorer and geologist John Wesley Powell (1888); astronomer and physicist Edward Charles Pickering (1912); anthropologist Margaret Mead (1975); and biologist Stephen Jay Gould (2000). Notable presidents of the AAAS, 1848–2005…
Mead in 1948
Ink on paper drawing by artist I Ketut Ngéndon depicting anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson leaving Bali and heading for Papua New Guinea
Samoan girl, c. 1896
Mead, c. 1950