| LC control no. | n 87825022 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Trask, Parker D. (Parker Davies), 1899-1961 |
| Variant(s) | Trask, Parker Davies, 1899-1961 Trask, P. D. (Parker Davies), 1899-1961 |
| Birth date | 1899-05-07 |
| Death date | 1961-11-12 |
| Place of birth | Springfield (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Geological engineering |
| Affiliation | Yale University American Petroleum Institute Geological Survey (U.S.) University of Wisconsin University of California, Berkeley |
| Profession or occupation | Geologists College teachers |
| Found in | LCCN 39-25856: His Recent marine sediments, 1939 (hdg.: Trask, Parker Davies, 1899-1961; usage: Parker D. Trask) LC data base, 4-9-87 (hdg.: Trask, Parker Davies, 1899-1961; usage: Parker D. Trask; variant: P.D. Trask) Online Archive of California, March 20, 2020 (Parker Davies Trask, Engineering: Berkeley; 1899-1961; Professor of Geological Engineering, geologist; Parker Davies Trask was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on May 7, 1899 and died in Berkeley on November 12, 1961; he graduated from the University of Texas with a major in mathematics at age eighteen; he received his M.A. at age twenty-one and his Ph. D. at age twenty-four, both from the University of California; he taught for two years (1924-1926) at Yale, and for one year (1945-1946) at the University of Wisconsin; he conducted research for the American Petroleum Institute (1926-1931), and from 1931 to 1948 was a member of the U.S. Geological Survey; during the war years, he was on detached service investigating manganese deposits in North America, conducting pro-submarine research for the Navy, and serving as a scientific observer at the Bikini tests; in 1951 he became associated with the University of California, Berkeley, by accepting an appointment as Research Engineer, soon becoming Lecturer, and then in 1956, Professor of Geological Engineering; he married Fanniemae Craycroft in 1926) |
| Associated language | eng |
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