File:Margaret Mead (1901-1978) (2).jpg

Subject: Mead, Margaret        Pauling, Linus 1901-1994        New York Academy of Sciences

Type: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1968     6/21/1968

Topic: Anthropology      Women scientists

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5980]

Summary: In this photography taken at the New York Academy of Sciences in June 1968, anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) is talking to journalists. The person in background appears to be chemist Linus Pauling (1901-1994). Mead was then Vice-President of the New York Academy of Sciences and she and Pauling were appearing at a "Town Meeting of Science" conference, held at the Academy to discuss a perceived budget crisis within the sciences

Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archivess

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Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives