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Harry Bolton Seed
Harry Bolton Seed
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by a year as a foundation engineer for Thomas Worcester, Incorporated, in Boston. In 1950 Professor Seedjoined the civil engineering faculty at the University of California, where he spent the remainder of his career as an engineering educator, researcher in geotechnical engineering, and consultant to numerous companies and government agencies.
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They have had enormous influence on the safety of critical structures such as major dams, nuclear power plants, and high-rise buildings. His investigations of major disasters, such as the 1964 Great Alaska earthquake, the 1971 San Fernanclo earthquake in California, the 1976 failure of the Teton Dam, the 1979 slide at the Port of Nice in France, and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, have, with the aid of modern methyls of analysis and experimental techniques, led to a basic understanding of their causes en cl to the measures that must be taken to prevent similar occurrences in the future.
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K Hsich Award of the British Royal Society and Institution of Civil Engineers, Great Britain; the Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering; and the first Kevin Nash GoIcI Medal of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering.
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National Academy of Engineering in 1970, to honorary membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1985, to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in l9S6, and to honorary membership in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute in 1988.
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