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Oliver Cummings Farrington
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Born | (1864-10-09)October 9, 1864
Brewer, Maine, USA
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Died | November 2, 1933(1933-11-02) (aged 69)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Resting place | Oak Hill Cemetery, Brewer, Maine, USA |
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Known for | Meteorite classification |
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Oliver Cummings Farrington (October 9, 1864 – November 2, 1933) was an American geologist.
Biography[edit]
Oliver C. Farrington was born at Brewer, Maine on October 9, 1864, and was educated at the University of Maine (B.S., 1881; M.S., 1888) and at Yale University (Ph.D., 1891), where he was tutor in 1890-91.[1] Between 1882 and 1887 he taught science in various Maine academies, in 1893 he was an assistant in the United States National Museum, in 1894 he became curator geology in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and from 1894 to 1904 he was lecturer on mineralogy at the University of Chicago. He was a collaborator in mines and mineralogy at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and a member of the International Jury of AwardsatSt. Louis in 1904. He was the president of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) in 1914–16.
He was elected in 1909 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[2]
He died in Chicago on November 2, 1933.[3]
Besides his magazine articles, he was author of:
The mineral farringtonite, first found in the Springwater meteorite, is named in his honor.
See also[edit]
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Glossary of meteoritics
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Roy, Sharat K.: 53. Memorial of Oliver Cummings Farrington, Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer., 1933, 193-210, 1 pl., June, 1934.
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Gems and Gemology, March–April 1934.
References[edit]
^ "O. C. Farrington, Field Museum Curator, Dies". Chicago Tribune. November 3, 1933. p. 30. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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