Adam Yarmolinsky
1923 births | 2000 deaths | american academics | american educators | american jews | people from baltimore, maryland | people from new york city | place of birth missing | university of maryland, baltimore faculty
Professor Adam Yarmolinsky (1923 - 2000), son of Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, was an American academic, educator as well as a political apointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations.
Besides serving in the White House, he also held posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was an aide to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, where Yarmolinsky was an early critic of American policies in the Vietnam war.
Following his service in the U.S. government Yarmolinsky became Regent's Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he served as Provost.
He was also a founding member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
He died in January 2000, aged 76.
Marriage
On February 3 1990 he married Dr. Sarah Ames Ellis, a clinical psychologist, in an Episcopalian ceremony in Manhattan.External links
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