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Lonnie Bunch. Lonnie G. Bunch III (born November 18, 1952) is an American educator and historian. Bunch is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. He has spent most of his career as a history museum curator and administrator.
Smithsonian was the result of Secretary of the Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley asking the retired editor of Life magazine Edward K. Thompson to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian Institution is interested, might be interested or ought to be interested". [112] Another Secretary of the Smithsonian, Walter Boyne, founded Air ...
Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 [1] [2] – May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. [3] He also served as president of the National Academy of Sciences from ...
Lonnie Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, addressed a recent Washington Post investigation that revealed that the institution still holds tens of thousands of body parts taken ...
Acting Provost and Under Secretary for Museums and Research at the Smithsonian Institution Richard Kurin (born November 27, 1950), an American cultural anthropologist , museum official and author, is the Acting Provost and Under Secretary for Museums and Research at the Smithsonian Institution .
Doctoral students. Jean-Lou Chameau. Gerald Wayne Clough (born September 24, 1941) is an American civil engineer and educator who is President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. A graduate of Georgia Tech in civil engineering, he was the first alumnus to serve as ...
Known for. Noted astrophysicist who was awarded the Henry Draper Medal (1910) and the Rumford Prize (1915) Charles Greeley Abbot (May 31, 1872 – December 17, 1973) was an American astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1928 until 1944. [1][3][4] Abbot went from being director of the Smithsonian ...
David J. Skorton. David Jan Skorton is an American physician and academic. He has been president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) since July 15, 2019. [ 1] Prior to the AAMC, he led the Smithsonian Institution, as its 13th Secretary from July 2015 to June 2019. [ 2]