Leonard Carmichael was a U.S. educator and psychologist

Psychologist

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. Born on November 9, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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, he received his B.S. from Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

 in 1921 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1924. He was a brother in the Theta Delta Chi

Theta Delta Chi

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 fraternity during his time at Tufts.

He became an instructor at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

's Department of Psychology

Princeton University Department of Psychology

The Princeton University Department of Psychology, located in Green Hall, is an academic department of Princeton University on the corner of Washington St. and William St. in Princeton, New Jersey. For over a century, the department has been one of the most notable psychology departments in the...

 in 1924 and was appointed to assistant professor in 1926.
After being part of the Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

 faculty from 1927 to 1936, he left for the Univ. of Rochester. Carmichael served as the president of Tufts University from 1938 to 1952. He then served as the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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 from 1953 to 1964. He become vice-president for research and exploration at the National Geographic after leaving the Smithsonian.

In 1972 Carmichael was awarded the Public Welfare Medal

Public Welfare Medal

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 from the National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

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. Tufts University’s community service organization, the Leonard Carmichael Society; Carmichael Hall, a dormitory and dining hall on the Tufts campus; and the lunar crater Carmichael

Carmichael (crater)

Carmichael is a lunar impact crater that is located along the eastern edge of the Sinus Amoris, in the northeastern quadrant of the Moon's near side. It lies within a couple of crater diameters south-southwest of the smaller crater Hill. Further to the east-northeast is the prominent crater Macrobius...

 are all named in his honor.

Carmichael is sometimes mentioned in connection with the MKULTRA project.

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