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LIEUT.-COLONEL W. B. R. KING has been appointed Woodwardian professor of geology in the University of Cambridge. He has the unique distinction of having been the chief representative of British geology directly employed as a geologist in both world wars. He won two awards on the Western Front: an O. B. E. for geological services in the War of 1914-18, and an M.C. for non-geological actions connected with the evacuation of the British Army from France in 1940. In peace, Colonel King was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1912 until his appointment as Prof. Marr's assistant at Cambridge in 1920. Eleven years later he was elected to the Yates-Goldsmid chair of geology at University College, London.
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Woodwardian Chair at Cambridge: Lieut.-Colonel W. B. R. King, O. B. E., M. C. Nature 152, 531 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152531b0
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