[meteorite-list] Biography of Oscar E. Monnig

From: The Tricottet Collection <tricottetcoll_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:34:50 +0000
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Oscar E. Monnig (1902-1999), lawyer by training, worked his entire life in his family's wholesale and retail business in Fort Worth, Texas, to finally become CEO of the same company. He began collecting meteorites in the early 1930s. Autodidact, he amassed one of the most important private meteorite collections of the 20th century and played a significant role in the Meteoritics community. On his spare time, he helped recover new meteorite falls and old finds, some of which may have been lost to science without his thorough investigations...

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