About William D. Carey
Lived 1916 – 1998 (aged 82). William D. Carey was a publisher.
William D. Carey (January 29, 1916 – June 24, 1998) was Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and publisher of Science from 1975 through 1987.
He was born in the Bronx, raised in Boston, and educated at Columbia and Harvard. From 1969 to 1974 Carey occupied a senior position at Arthur D. Little, Inc In 1982, in the pages of Science, he debated with Frank Carlucci over the latter's concerns that scientific exchanges with the Soviet Union were being exploited militarily by the Soviets. Carey was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He died in Washington, D.C., at age 82.
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American publisher
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William D. Carey was born on 29 January 1916.
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William D. Carey died on 24 June 1998.
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William D. Carey was a publisher.
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