biography
| name: |
Terzaghi, Karl (Anton von)
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pronunciation:
[tairtsagee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1963)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied at an Austrian technical college, and practised engineering in Vienna. In 1916 he went to Istanbul to teach, and joined the faculty of Robert College there (1918). He went to the USA to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1925–9), then went to Vienna to teach (1929–38), returning to the USA in 1939. He became a US citizen (1943) and taught at Harvard (1946–56). His entire career was devoted to establishing the modern discipline of soil mechanics (the behaviour of soil under stress) and foundation engineering, thereby enabling engineers to design safe foundations, earth dams etc, on a scientific basis. |
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