[1][2][3] Born in Goshen, Indiana to a farming family on May 28, 1897, John C. Warner was a son of a German immigrant.
He authored more than eighty published works on scientific subjects as well as on secondary and higher education.
During World War II, he headed government research on plutonium for the Manhattan Project.
[11][12][13] Warner died at the age of ninety-one at the Friendship Village retirement home in Upper St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania on April 12, 1989.
A memorial service was held in his honor at the Skibo ballroom at Carnegie Mellon on June 2, 1989.