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Authorised form of name	Skempton; Sir; Alec Westley (1914 - 2001)
Dates	1914 - 2001
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Date of birth	04/06/1914
Date of death	09/08/2001
Activity	Education: Northampton Grammar School; City and Guilds College, London (1932). PhD Career: Staff, Building Research Station (BRS) (1936); worked on reinforced concrete; staff, soil mechanics laboratory, BRS (1937-1946); his work included Waterloo Bridge, Gosport Dockyard, Eau Brink Cut channel of the River Ouse near King's Lynn; established Soil Mechanics course, Imperial College, London (1945); Senior Lecturer (1946); established post-graduate Soil Mechanics course (1950); Professor of Soil Mechanics (1955); Head of Department (1957-1976); Professor of Civil Engineering (from 1957); Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow (from 1981); edited work on John Smeaton (FRS 1753); played the flute and croquet Honours: Kt 2000 Memberships: MICE (Vice-President 1974-1976)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	16/03/1961
Age at election	46
Relationships	Married Mary Wood (known as Nancy) (she died 1993); two daughters
Source	Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 509-520, plate, by Richard J Chandler
Code	NA7835

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1961/24	Skempton, Alec Westley: certificate of election to the Royal Society	16 March 1961
IM/GA/WRS/9251	Skempton, Alec Westley	nd

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