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Terzaghi, Karl

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Terzaghi, Karl (1868-1963)

US engineer of Czech origin. 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. He first went to the USA in 1925 to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1925-29), then went to Vienna to teach (1929-38), returning to the USA in 1939; he became a citizen in 1943 and taught at Harvard (1946-56).

Terzaghi was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After graduating from an Austrian technical college, he practised engineering in Vienna; in 1916 he went to Istanbul to teach and in 1918 joined the faculty of Robert College there.



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