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Leo Casagrande
Leo Casagrande
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He combined high technical ability with good judgment and, in proper balance, scientific rigor with an awareness of the needs of practical engineering and construction. Leo was born September 17, 1903, in Haidenschaft, near Trieste, a cultural center in the German-speaking part of the old Austrian empire, which was torn apart by World War I
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In 1933 he accepted a teaching assignment at the Technological University of Berlin, where he took charge of organizing a soil mechanics institute. In 1934 he was asked to head the Soil Mechanics Division of the Office of the Inspector General for the German Highways, which had the principal assignment of building the German Autobahn, the first true superhighway system.
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Immediately after the end of World War II, Allied teams of engineers and scientists went to Europe to seek out and examine recent innovations used in Germany and to search for outstanding men who could be induced to work in the United States or Great Britain, which offered them attractive opportunities in their field. Among outstanding men thus recruited were Wernher von Braun and Wilhelm Flugge.
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His report, TheApplication of ElectrmOsmosis to Practical Problems inFoundations and Earthworks published by the station in 1947, was widely circulated and quickly brought recognition to both Leo and the subject among geotechnical engineers throughout the English-speaking world. Leo's brother Arthur, in the meantime, had built the soil mechanics program in the graduate school at Harvard into a preeminent position in the United States.
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To the extent possible, he shared with them the development of a farm in New Hampshire, which he and the family enhanced by planting thousands of pine seecllings and painstakingly pruning them as they grew. He also characteristically used his expertise to create successfully a pond on the property, even though local agricultural advisers were of the opinion it would not hold water.
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