# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alec-skempton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:44:23.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alec-skempton"
name: "Alec Skempton"
slug: "alec-skempton"
description: "Sir Alec Westley Skempton 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."
tagline: "British civil engineer (1914–2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-06-04"
deathDate: "2001-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.27
  momentum:             2.379487179487179
  historical:           5.674514666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alec Skempton"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Skempton"
    title: "Alec Skempton"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Skempton"
    title: "Alec Skempton"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Skempton"
    title: "Alec Skempton"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Skempton"
    title: "Alec Skempton"
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    title: "Alec Skempton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump