David Allen Hamburg (October 1, 1925 – April 21, 2019) was an American psychiatrist. He served as president of the
Carnegie Corporation of New York
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from 1982 to 1997. He also served as the President of the Institute of Medicine,
National Academy of Sciences
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and president of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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. He had also been a member of the
National Academy of Sciences
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since 1998. He was also a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and the
American Philosophical Society
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. He had previously been chair of the department of psychiatry at
Stanford
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. His wife,
Beatrix Hamburg
Beatrix A. Hamburg (October 19, 1923 – April 15, 2018) was an American psychiatrist whose long career in academic medicine advanced the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. Hamburg was the first African-American to attend Vassar College, an ...
, followed a similarly successful career path. Their daughter,
Margaret Hamburg
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg (born July 12, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is an American physician and public health administrator, who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair ...
, is a physician who has followed their footsteps into public service becoming Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in 2009. His son, Eric Hamburg, is an author, attorney and film producer in Los Angeles.
Hamburg was born in
Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in ...
. He was awarded the Public Welfare Medal of the
National Academy of Sciences
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in 1998, its most prestigious award, and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
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in 1996. In 2007 he and his wife received the
Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Award in Mental Health from the Institute of Medicine for their long careers in medicine and public service. He died in Washington, D.C. on April 21, 2019 from
ischemic colitis
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at the age of 93.
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1925 births
2019 deaths
People from Evansville, Indiana
Physicians from Indiana
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
American psychiatrists
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Members of the National Academy of Medicine