Background
Billings, Marland Pratt was born on March 11, 1902 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Bartlett and Helen Agnes (McDonough) Billings.
Billings, Marland Pratt was born on March 11, 1902 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Bartlett and Helen Agnes (McDonough) Billings.
Billings was educated at Roxbury Latin School. He received his Bachelor of Arts (1923), his Master of Arts (1925), and his Doctor of Philosophy (1927) from Harvard University. In the 1950s, Billings studied the geology exposed by some of the bedrock tunnels being constructed in the Boston area by the Metropolitan District Commission for water supply and drainage disposal.
Assistant in geology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1922-1925;
instructor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1925-1928;
assistant professor geology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1930-1939;
associate professor geology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1939-1946;
professor geology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1946-1972;
professor emeritus, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972-1996. Chairman division geological science, Harvard University, 1946-1951. Associate Bryn Mawr College, 1928-1929.
Associate professor, 1929-1930, assistant geologist, United States Geological Survey, 1929-1938, 1940-1943, associate geologist, 1943-1944, geologist, 1945. Curator Geological Museum, Harvard University.
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Civilian technical observer United States Army, 1944. Fellow Geological Society of America (vice president 1951, 58, president 1959, Penrose medal 1987), Mineral Society of America. Member American Academy Arts. and Sciences, Seismological Society of America, National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1947), American Association Petroleum Geologists.
Married Katharine Stevens Fowler, April 23, 1938. Children: George, Elizabeth.