Alec Skempton
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1914 – 2001
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Who was Alec Skempton?
Sir Alec Westley Skempton FRS FREng was an English civil engineer internationally recognised, along with Karl Terzaghi, as one of the founding fathers of the engineering discipline of soil mechanics. He established the soil mechanics course at Imperial College London, where the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department's building was renamed after him in 2004, and was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to engineering. He was also a notable contributor on the history of British civil engineering.
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- Born
- Jun 4, 1914
Northampton - Also known as
- A. W. Skempton
- Education
- Imperial College London
- Died
- Aug 9, 2001
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on July 23, 2013
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