Engineers who built the science of soil and foundations, called soil mechanics, which tells builders how much weight the ground can carry and how earth walls, dams and embankments behave. They include the Austrian engineer called the father of soil mechanics and the English engineer who set up its course at Imperial College London. A person belongs here when the cited article names the person as a founder or leading figure of soil mechanics or geotechnical engineering.
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Karl von Terzaghi (Wikipedia)
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father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering
Alec Skempton (Wikipedia)
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founding fathers of the engineering discipline of soil mechanics
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