Background
Manwell, Reginald Dickinson was born on December 24, 1897 in Harford, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John P(arker) and Stella F(lorine) (Dickinson) Manwell.
Manwell, Reginald Dickinson was born on December 24, 1897 in Harford, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John P(arker) and Stella F(lorine) (Dickinson) Manwell.
Graduate, Deerfield Academy, 1914. AB, Amherst College, 1919. AM, Amherst College, 1926.
Doctor of Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1928. Doctor of Science (honorary), Syracuse University, 1963.
Teacher, principal, St. Charles, Michigan, 1920-1921; teacher, principal, Waterport Union High School, 1920-1924; head biology department, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, 1929-1930; instructor in protozoology ad interim school hygiene/public health, Johns Hopkins University, 1929-1930; professor zoology, Syracuse (New York) U., 1930-1963; professor emeritus zoology, Syracuse (New York) U., from 1963. Member of faculty Mointain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, summer 1962. Trustee, president Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado.
Captain Sanitary corpus, United States army, 1943-1945. Chief protozoology section, division tropical medical and parasitology Army Medical School, Washington, 1944-1945. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences.
Member Society Protozoologists (president since 1962), American Society Parasitologists, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Society Zoological, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Society Naturalists, Sigma Xi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Delta.
Married Elizabeth Skelding Moore, August 6, 1930. Children: John Parker, Henry Dickinson.