This book provides 1-page short biographies of scientists and engineers working in the area of hydraulic engineering and fluid dynamics in the USA. On each page, a notable individual is highlighted by: (1) Exact dates and locations of birth and death; (2) Educational and professional details, including also awards received; (3) Reasons for inclusion in book by highlighting key publications; (4) Short bibliography including both individual's own, and source literature such as Who's who details, or retrieve details for portrait; (5) Portrait or photo showing e.g. book cover of individual, or…mehr
This book provides 1-page short biographies of scientists and engineers working in the area of hydraulic engineering and fluid dynamics in the USA. On each page, a notable individual is highlighted by: (1) Exact dates and locations of birth and death; (2) Educational and professional details, including also awards received; (3) Reasons for inclusion in book by highlighting key publications; (4) Short bibliography including both individual's own, and source literature such as Who's who details, or retrieve details for portrait; (5) Portrait or photo showing e.g. book cover of individual, or photo of a typical work as a dam or a canal. This volume includes almost 1,000 individuals, of which there are only 2 women. The book also has a detailed Index, and a 2-page list of individuals (normally born in Europe) retained in previous volumes (1 and 2, ) having a relation to this volume 3. The book also contains a map of the USA in which the major American rivers are highlighted, given their close relation to projects made by several of the individuals presented in the book. This book provides a beautiful overview of the many scientists and engineers having contributed to the current knowledge in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics. The author made every effort in compiling the most important hydraulicians of the USA in this work as it will become much more difficult in future decades to find biographical details on these, given the current policy that so few memoirs or necrologues are published.
Willi H. Hager (*1951) was educated at ETH Zurich, from where he obtained the civil engineering degree in 1976, the PhD degree in 1981, the habilitation degree in 1994, and he is there professor of hydraulics since 1998. He was research associate at ETH Lausanne from 1983 to 1988, returning to Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie (VAW) in 1989 as head of the scientific staff. During the past 35 years of his professional activities, he was interested in hydraulic structures, wastewater hydraulics, high-speed flows, impulse waves, scour and erosion, and in the history of hydraulics, mainly in biographies of notable individuals of water engineering. He has published numerous works on the above mentioned topics both in peer-review journals as well as in national journals and at scientific congresses. He also authored books on these topics, among which are Dam Hydraulics (1998), Constructions hydrauliques (2009), Wastewater Hydraulics (2010) and two volumes on Hydraulicians in Europe. He was awarded the 1997 Ippen Lecture from the Intl. Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) becoming an Honorary Member in 2013. He also was the recipient of the Best Technical Note Award, and the Hydraulic Structures Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), among other distinctions. Homepage: http://www.vaw.ethz.ch/people/hy/hagerw
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Preface Acknowledgements 1-page Biographies of Hydraulicians in the USA Index
