# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-casagrande
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:51:51.124Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-casagrande"
name: "Arthur Casagrande"
slug: "arthur-casagrande"
description: "Arthur Casagrande was an American civil engineer born in Austria-Hungary who made important contributions to the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy. Renowned for his ingenious designs of soil testing apparatus and fundamental research on seepage and soil liquefaction, he is also credited for developing the soil mechanics teaching programme at Harvard University during the early 1930s that has since been modelled in many universities around the world."
tagline: "Soil mechanic engineer and collaborator of Terzaghi (1902-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Casagrande-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1902-08-28"
deathDate: "1981-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.2
  momentum:             5.04424778761062
  historical:           8.952809333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Arthur Casagrande"
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    title: "Arthur Casagrande"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Casagrande"
    title: "Arthur Casagrande"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Casagrande"
    title: "Arthur Casagrande"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87"
    title: "آرتور کاساگرانده"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arthur Casagrande"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Casagrande"
    title: "Arthur Casagrande"
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  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Casagrande"
    title: "Arthur Casagrande"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump