"In August, 1933, at the in Chicago, was founded with an enrollment of 57 charter members and and as the first President and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively. Within five years, the Society had doubled in size, with members from the U.S.A. and ten other nations. Annual meetings were suspended during World War II (1942 through 1945) and when it reconvened in 1946 the members adopted the name “”. By that time personal and professional antagonisms had arisen that threatened to fragment the Society and led, in 1949, to the resignation of Nininger and his wife. Throughout the 1950s the Society was widely regarded as a small, disorganized and essentially moribund organization. Revitalization of the Society began in the early 1960s after the advent of the when the Society steadily gained members with expertise in , , , and , and impact dynamics."
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Ursula Marvin
(née Bailey; August 20, 1921 – February 12, 2018) was an American pioneering , historian of geology, author of the 1973 book Continental Drift: The Evolution of a Concept, and president for a 2-year term from 1975 to 1976 of the Meteoritical Society. She is memorialized by Antarctica's (named in 1991) and the Moon's (named in 1992). She was elected in 1986 a Fellow of the and received in 2005 the .
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