Background
Banta, Arthur Mangun was born on December 31, 1877 in near Greenwood, Indiana, United States. Son of James Henry and Mary (Mangun) Banta.
Banta, Arthur Mangun was born on December 31, 1877 in near Greenwood, Indiana, United States. Son of James Henry and Mary (Mangun) Banta.
Bachelor of Science, Central Normal College, Indiana, 1898. Bachelor of Arts, Indiana U., 1903, A.M., 1904. Edward-Austin fellow, Harvard, 1905-1906, Doctor of Philosophy., 1907.
Instructor in public schools, Indiana, 1895-1897. Principal high school, 1899-1901, Johnson County Normal School, summer, 1901. Assistant in zoology, Indiana U., 1903-1905.
Instructor Indiana U. Biological Station, summers, 1903, 1904. Assistant in zoölogy. Harvard, 1905-1906, teaching fellow, 1906-1907.
With the United States Fish Commission, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, summers, 1906, 09. Professor biology, Marietta College, Ohio, 1907-1909. Resident investigator, Station for Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1909-1930.
Professorial lecturer in genetics, University of Minnesota, 2d semester, 1927. Visiting professor experimental zoölogy, Brown U., 1929-1930, research professor biology, 1930-1945, professor emeritus since June, 1945. Associate Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1930-1932 and 1936-1937.
Member National Research Council Board of. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Zoölogists, American Society Naturalists (secretary 1935-1937), Genetics Society of America, Limnological Society of America, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Ecological Society America, Sigma Xi.
Investigator of effects of changed environment on cave animals.
Married Mary Charlotte Slack, July 26, 1906. Children: James Jerry, Ruth, Leah Margaret.