Background
Nininger, Harvey Harlow was born on January 17, 1887 in Conway Springs, Kansas, United States. Son of James Buchanan and Mary Ann (Bower) Nininger.
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Harvey Harlow Nininger
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Student, Northwestern State Teachers College, 1907-1909; AB, McPherson College, 1914; Doctor of Science, McPherson College, 1937; AM, Pomono College, 1916; Doctor of Science (honorary), Pomono College, 1976; postgraduate, University of California, 1915-1918; Doctor of Laws, Arizona State University, 1961.
Career
Teacher rural schools, 1909;
substitute professor biology, Northwestern State Teachers College, Alva, Oklahoma, 1912-1913;
professor, La Verne College, 1914-1918;
professor, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas, 1919-1920;
professor, McPherson College, 1920-1930;
founder, Nininger Laboratory for Research on Meteorities (name changed to American MeteoriteLab. 1937), Denver
director, Nininger Laboratory for Research on Meteorities (name changed to American MeteoriteLab. 1937), Denver, 1930-1946;
curator meteorites, Colorado Museum Natural History.
Consultant North America Aviation Space Science Laboratory. President, founder Rocky Mountain Summer School, Palmer Lake, Colorado. Established American Meteorite Museum, 1946;extensive research Arizona Meteorite Crater, 1946-1956.
Expedition Australia, study meteorite craters, 1958-1959. Explored and surveyed new meteorite crater Western Australia, 1959. Studied meteorite collections, Europe, 1960.
Meteorite exposition B.C., Canada, 1966.
Achievements
Membership
Special field agent food conservation program United States Bureau Entomology, 1918-1919. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Research on Meteorites (co-founder, secretary 1933-1937, president 1937-1941), Kansas Academy of Sciences (president 1924-1925). Member American Astronomical Union.
Connections
Married Addie N. Delp, June 5, 1914. Children: Robert D., Doris Elaine, Margaret Annual.
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Nationality
American -
Religion
congregationalist -
Political Party
Congregationalist