Background
Minnich, Dwight Elmer was born on January 28, 1890 in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. Son of Harvey C. and Bertha Beatrice (Minnich) Minnich.
Minnich, Dwight Elmer was born on January 28, 1890 in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. Son of Harvey C. and Bertha Beatrice (Minnich) Minnich.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Miami University, Oxford, O., 1910, Doctor of Science, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1917.
Austin teaching fellow Harvard, 1916-1917, Parker traveling fellow, 1917-1918. Instructor in zoology Syracuse University, 1919-1920. With University of Minnesota, 1920-1958, instructor in zoological, assistant and associate professor, professor, 1929-1958, department chairman, since 1930.
Trustee Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, president, 1946-1950.
Fellow John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1928-1929. Served as Second lieutenant Sanitary corpus, United States army, World War I. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Entomological Society American.
Member American Society Zoologists (secretary 1924-1930, vice president 1930-1931, representative on division biology and agriculture National Research Council, 1941-1944, president 1946), American Society Naturalists, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma Alpha, Delta Upsilon.
Married Helen Benton, December 30, 1922. Children: Dwight Benton, Conrad Harvey.