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Margaret Mead
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She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1979.
Famous for her work "Coming of Age in Samoa" in 1928.
Anthropologist whose research focused on inhabitants of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
Pictured on one of fifteen 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps in the "Celebrate the Century" series, issued 28 May 1998, celebrating the 1920s.
Mead served as president of the Society for Applied Anthropology, the World Federation of Mental Health, and the American Anthropological Association.
Mead was the first ever elected president by membership in 1974 for the American Association for Advancement of Science.
Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1976.
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