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Donald Kennedy (born 1931) is an American scientist, public administrator and academic.
Donald Kennedy was born in New York and educated at Harvard University (A.B.; Ph.D., Biology, 1956). He has spent most of his professional career at Stanford University. He served for 26 months as Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration during the Carter Administration.
Kennedy served as president of Stanford from 1980 to 1992. From 2000 until 2008, he was editor-in-chief of Science, the prestigious weekly published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (replaced by Bruce Alberts).
Trained as a biologist, Kennedy has become an expert in environmental problems related to major land-use changes, economically driven alterations in agricultural practice, global climate change and the development of regulatory practices.
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| Preceded by Gerald J. Lieberman |
Provost of Stanford University 1979-1980 |
Succeeded by Albert M. Hastorf |
| Preceded by Richard W. Lyman |
President of Stanford University 1980–1992 |
Succeeded by Gerhard Casper |
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