Alec Skempton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alec Skempton

civil engineer

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Northampton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Aug-2001

Profession: engineer, university teacher, civil engineer, historian of science

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Sir Alec Westley Skempton (4 June 1914 – 9 August 2001) was an English civil engineer internationally recognised, along with Karl Terzaghi, as one of the founding fathers of the engineering discipline of soil mechanics.
He established the soil mechanics course at Imperial College London, where the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department's building was renamed after him in 2004, and was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to engineering.
He was also a notable contributor on the history of British civil engineering.