Facts: - prizes: penrose medal -lrb- 1965 -rrb- - work institutions: us geological survey - death date: 25 april 1987 - field: geology - birth date: 24 september 1903 - name: philip burke king - nationality: united states - birth place: chester , indiana , usa - alma mater: iowa state university and yale university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of philip burke king .
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philip burke king -lrb- september 24 , 1903 -- april 25 , 1987 -rrb- was a geologist who worked for the united states geological survey .he was born in chester , indiana .king graduated from iowa state university -lrb- b.a. , 1924 ; m.s. , 1927 -rrb- and yale university -lrb- ph.d. , 1929 -rrb- .he spent most of his career from 1930 onward as a geologist with the u.s. geological survey .he taught at universities for short periods : -lrb- texas , 1925-27 -rrb- , arizona -lrb- 1929-30 -rrb- , ucla -lrb- 1954-56 -rrb- , and in the autumn of 1965 was a visiting lecturer at the university of moscow .in 1965 , he was awarded the penrose medal of the geological society of america and the distinguished service medal of the u.s. department of interior .he was elected to the american academy of arts and sciences in 1966 .he was attending the international geological congress meeting in prague in august , 1968 , when the soviets invaded ; he was evacuated to nuremberg .king did his early field work -lrb- 1925 -rrb- in the marathon region , an area of about in the trans-pecos part of texas , where varied rocks and structures that were formed during the paleozoic have been stripped of the cover of younger strata that conceal them elsewhere in this part of the southwest .his first field work in the marathon region was on permian marine strata that form a sequence about thick on the northern side of the glass mountains .instead of an orderly sequence , the strata of the glass mountains were a disorderly array of discontinuous bodies of carbonate rocks , shale , and sandstone .an opportunity to clarify the permian stratigraphy of western texas came later -lrb- 1934 -rrb- , when king began work in the southern guadalupe mountains about northwest of the glass mountains .during king 's field work there , he gave much attention to the capitan limestone , which stands in lofty white cliffs at the summit of the mountains .in 1940-44 , the wartime search for strategic minerals by the u.s. geological survey afforded...