Arthur Casagrande, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arthur Casagrande

Austrian engineer

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1902

Place of Birth: Ajdovščina Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 06-Sep-1981

Profession: geologist, civil engineer, geotechnician

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Arthur Casagrande (August 28, 1902 – September 6, 1981) was an Austrian-born American civil engineer who made important contributions to the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy.
Renowned for his ingenious designs of soil testing apparatus and fundamental research on seepage and soil liquefaction, he is also credited for developing the soil mechanics teaching programme at Harvard University during the early 1930s that has since been modelled in many universities around the world.