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page 1Geotechnical engineers
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist (1736-1806)
William John Macquorn Rankine
civil engineer (1820–1872)
Osborne Reynolds
Anglo-Irish innovator (1842-1912)
Karl von Terzaghi
Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the "father of soil mechanics" (1883–1963)
Emma Pooley
Road racing cyclist
Albert Atterberg
Swedish chemist (1846-1916)
Arthur Casagrande
soil mechanic engineer and collaborator of Terzaghi (1902-1981)
Ivica Kirin
Croatian politician
Albert Caquot
French civil engineer (1881-1976)
Evert Hoek
Zimbabwean-Canadian engineer (1933–2024)
Ralph Brazelton Peck
American civil engineer (1912–2008)
Alan W. Bishop
British engineer (1920–1988)
G. Wayne Clough
President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology and 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian (born 1941)
Alec Skempton
British civil engineer (1914–2001)
Jean Kérisel
French engineer (1908–2005)
John Burland
South African engineering academic in the UK
Jacques Frédéric Français
French engineer
Alexander Puzrin
Swiss professor of geotechnical engineering at ETH Zurich
Malcolm D. Bolton
British soil mechanics engineer and professor
R. Kerry Rowe
Australian-Canadian civil engineer
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Harry Bolton Seed
American geotechnical engineering professor (1922–1989)