Professor Alec Skempton
Landmark Years 1958 - 2001 |
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1961
Elected Fellow of the
Royal Society of London |
1964
Gave the Rankine lecture "Long-term
stability of clay slopes". Visit Imperial College Publications to download a copy. |
1974 - 1976
Elected to Vice President of the Institution
of Civil Engineers. |
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1975
Institution of Civil Engineers - elected as
first Chairman of Civil Engineers' Archive Panel (to 1996) |
1981
Appointed as Professor Emeritus and Senior
Research Fellow, Imperial College |
1982 - 1990
Institution of Civil Engineers - Chairman of
the ICE panel for historical engineering works. |
2000
Awarded his knighthood in the Millennium New
Years Honours. |
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2001
After a short illness he died in hospital in
London on 9th August. |
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2002
Memorial
Conference - 29 to 31 March
to celebrate his life by reviewing his contributions to and recent
advances in geotechnical engineering. The Skempton building was
dedicated during the Conference.
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Posthumous
publication of his Biography "A Particle of Clay"
by Judith Niechcial
Review by JB to be linked
here (pdf)
Publication of "A
Biographical Dictionary of Civil
Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland" published by the
Institution of Civil Engineers
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Obituary
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We gratefully acknowledge permission
granted by the
Institution of Civil Engineers
allowing us to reproduce items
from their journal "Geotechnique". |
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