Alec Skempton
✓ Source-basedstableBritish civil engineer (1914-2001)
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.
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Nigel GilbertAlso won Fellow of the Royal Academy of EngineeringGertrude EllesAlso won Lyell MedalHaroon AhmedAlso won Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Emmanuel de MargerieAlso won Lyell MedalMichael PepperAlso won Fellow of the Royal Academy of EngineeringOwen Thomas JonesAlso won Lyell MedalAbout this person
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.
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