Professor
Bishop
Landmark
Years 1946 - 1988 |
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1946
Bishop moved to Imperial College, to take up an appointment as an
assistant lecturer, where he continued to design and develop new soils
test and sampling equipment, but now the equipment was used to study
fundamental properties of soil behaviour as well as to obtain results
required for engineering problems. Theory and practice, welded together
by continually checking one against the other; this was the formula
used so successfully by him. |
Bishop's
first laboratory
in the
Goldsmiths Building
at Imperial College |
1947
Promoted to Lecturer |
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1952
Received his PhD |
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1957
Became Reader and DSc. Published with
D.J.Henkel the landmark volume "The measurement of soil properties
in the triaxial test". |
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1965
Professor of Soil Mechanics |
Bishop
was a keen sailor and kept a converted lifeboat at Faversham. |
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1966
Investigated the causes of the Aberfan
disaster at the tribunal and the outcome was to have a profound effect
on the mining industry in terms of the statutory provisions with regard
to safety.
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| Gave his Inaugural
Lecture as Professor of Soil Mechanics entitled "Soils and Soft
Rocks as Engineering Materials" on 17th May 1966/. |
Gave the Rankine Lecture
on "The strength of soils as engineering materials".
Visit Imperial College Publications to download a copy. |
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1970 - 1973
Dean of the City and Guilds College at
Imperial College. |
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1980
Retired |
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1981
Delivered keynote lecture "35 Years of
Soil Testing" at the International Conference on Soil Mechanics
and Foundation Engineering,. Stockholm, in June.
Click here to see Stockholm picture key and staff list |
Stockholm Conference
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1980 - 1983
Senior Research Fellow. |
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1983
The title of Emeritus Professor was conferred on him.
1988
Died suddenly at his home in Whitstable on
30 June.
1999
We
dedicated our advanced soil mechanics laboratory to Bishop
Obituary
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Bishop
with
Dr Angus Skinner
in the laboratory |
We gratefully acknowledge permission granted by
the Institution of Civil Engineers
allowing us to reproduce items from their journal "Geotechnique". |