Washburn, S. L. (Sherwood Larned), 1911-2000

Physical anthropologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences, professor at UC Berkeley 1958-1978. Field work done in Ceylon, Thailand, Borneo, Rhodesia, and East and South Africa.

From the description of S.L. Washburn papers, 1932-2000. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227481746

Biographical Chronology

• 1911: Born on November 26, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, second son of Henry Bradford Washburn and Edith Hall Washburn
• 1935: B.A. in anthropology from Harvard College, summa cum laude
• 1936 - 37 : Field work in Ceylon, Siam, Borneo (Asiatic primate expedition organized by Harold Coolidge)
• 1937 - 38 : Teaching Assistant for Professors Earnest A. Hooton and Alfred M. Tozzer, Anthropology Department, Harvard University
• 1939: Married Henrietta Faxon Pease on September 10
• 1939 - 47 : Instructor and Assistant Professor, Anatomy, Columbia University Medical School
• 1940: Ph.D. from Harvard University
• 1947 - 58 : Associate Professor and Professor (Chairman 1953-1955), Anthropology Department, University of Chicago
• 1948: Field work in East and South Africa
• 1951: President, American Association of Physical Anthropologists
• 1955: Field work in Southern Rhodesia and South Africa
• 1958 - 78 : Professor (Chairman 1967-1968), Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley
• 1959: Field work in East Africa
• 1960: Awarded the Viking Fund Medal
• 1963: Membership in the National Academy of Sciences
• 1965: Awarded Ciba Foundation Medal
• 1967: Awarded Huxley Medal, Royal Anthropological Society, Great Britain
• 1969: Appointed to Stanford University Board of Trustees
• 1975: Awarded title of University Professor
• 1978 - 1978 present : University Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley
• 1979: Awarded Berkeley Citation, University of California, Berkeley
• 1981: Laboratories for undergraduate Physical Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley named the Sherwood L. Washburn Laboratories
• 1985: Henrietta Washburn died March 5
• 1990: Teaching Center in Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, named the Sherwood Washburn Teaching Center

From the guide to the S. L. Washburn Papers, 1932-1996, (The Bancroft Library.)