Background
SKEMPTON, Alec was born on June 4, 1914 in Northampton. Son of A. W. Skempton and Beatrice Edridge Payne.
SKEMPTON, Alec was born on June 4, 1914 in Northampton. Son of A. W. Skempton and Beatrice Edridge Payne.
Northampton Grammar School and University of London.
Professor, of Soil Mechanics 1955-1957, Professor, of Civil Engineering 1957-1981, Professor Emeritus since 1981, Senior Research Fellow since 1981. Lecturer in Copenhagen, Paris, Harvard University, University of Illinois, Stockholm, Madrid, Florence, Tokyo, Berkeley. Special Lecturer, Architectural Association 1948-1957.
Visiting Lecturer, Cambridge University School of Architecture 1962-1966, Edinburgh University School of Architecture 1968.
Hitchcock Foundation Professor, at University of California, Berkeley 1978. Chairman Joint Committee on Soils, Ministry of Supply and Road Research Board 1954-1959.
President Institute Society Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering 61. President Institute of Civil Engineering 1974-1976.
President Newcomen Society 1977-1979, President Smeatonian Society 1981.
Fellow", Royal Society 1961. Foreign Association United States National Academy, of Engineering 1976. Honorary Doctor of Science (Durham) 1968, (Aston) 1980, (Chalmers, Gothenburg) 1982.
James Alfred Ew"ingenieur
Council Institute of Civil Engineering 1949-1954. Cathedrals Advisory Committee 1964-1969, Council North.E.R.C. 76.
Married Mary Wood in 1940.