Robert McCormick Adams Jr.

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American anthropologist and the 9th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1926-2018)

United States AcademicsLived 1926 to 2018 · aged 91

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Robert McCormick Adams Jr. was an American anthropologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1984-94). He worked in both the Near East and Mesoamerica. A long time professor of the University of Chicago, he was best known for his research in Iraq.

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Adams and Nancy Reagan at the presentation of a portrait head of Grace Kelly at the National Portrait Gallery in October 1986, alongside Kelly's widower, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and her children, Albert, Caroline and Stéphanie

Secretary Adams and his wife

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa

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Carlos Morales TroncosoAlso won Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Eduardo SteinAlso won Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa Ricardo Arias CalderónAlso won Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Roberto Francisco Chiari RemónAlso won Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa

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