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Stanley DeWolf Wilson
Stanley DeWolf Wilson
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Army Corps of Engineers, which assigned him to study civil engineering at the University of Minnesota. Later, while he was attached to Fort BeIvoir, the corps assigned him to attend the course in airfield engineering under Professor Arthur Casagrande at Harvard University.
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Fully capable of using or developing applicable theory, he was a master at solving engineering problems by the interpretation of quantitative field observations against a background of theory. A pioneer in soil and rock dynamics, he was largely responsible for devising practical means for estimating ground motions of missile installations under the loading of nuclear blasts and for evaluating the suitability of the Titan and Minuteman sites selected by the U.S.
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many other clams in Mexico; the Garctiner Dam in Canada; the Bandama River Project in the Ivory Coast; the Lesotho HighIancis Water Project; the Uribanti-Caparo Project in Venezuela; the Colbun Hydroelectric Project in Chile; and the seismic evaluation of the High Aswan Dam in Egypt. In the United States, his consulting activities involved the Browniee and Oxbow clams in Idaho, the Mammoth Pool Project in California, the Muddy Run and Seneca pumped storage projects in Pennsylvania, the Luctington pumped storage reservoir in Michigan, anct the stability problems at the Libby Dam site in Montana.
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For his contributions to the Corps of Engineers, he was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal ~ ~ 9731. The topics of his numerous publications ranged from investigations of the laboratory and field behavior of soils and rock and the means for observing them to a wide variety of practical soil displacement applications.
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five grandchildren were a cohesive unit in which he took great pleasure and with whom he spent many lively times at home or at the family retreat, a cabin near Cle Plum.
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