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Harry Bolton Seed
UC Berkeley Faculty Club in 1969.
Born(1922-08-19)August 19, 1922
Bolton, England
DiedApril 23, 1989(1989-04-23) (aged 66)
Orinda, California, United States
Alma materKing's College London
Scientific career
FieldsCivil Engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Harry Bolton Seed relaxing at home in 1987.

Harry Bolton Seed (August 19, 1922 – April 23, 1989) was an educator, scholar, former professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was regarded as the founding father of geotechnical earthquake engineering.[1]

Biography

Early life

Harry Bolton Seed was born in

Karl Terzaghi and Arthur Casagrande. He received his S.M. degree from Harvard in 1948 and spent the next year as an instructor at Harvard, followed by a year as a foundation engineer for Thomas Worcester, Inc., in Boston.[3]

Career at the University of California, Berkeley

In 1950 Seed joined the civil engineering faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he finished his career as an educator, researcher and consultant to public agencies and private businesses.[4] He built up the geotechnical engineering program at Berkeley into one of the best in the world. He served as chair of the Civil Engineering Department from 1965 to 1971. He successfully guided fifty PhD degree candidates to complete their dissertations during his career. He died of cancer at his home in Orinda, California on August 23, 1989.

Father of geotechnical earthquake engineering

Professor Seed's published nearly 300 papers and reports on various topics on

Mexico City earthquake
. He served as a consultant on hundreds of projects all over the world, including more than 100 major dams, more than 20 nuclear power plants, and innumerable major buildings and transportation facilities. His research, founded on sound scientific principles, have led to a total revision of concepts and methods for geotechnical earthquake design, as well as revision of codes of practice, design procedures, and regulations throughout the world.

Honors and awards

Seed received numerous awards and honors during his career. He was elected to the

Karl Terzaghi Award. He was elected honorary member in the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1985, honorary member in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute in 1988. He was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award and Faculty Research Lecturer from the University of California
. He was the Karl von Terzaghi Lecturer in 1967 and gave the Rankine Lecture in 1979. In 1993, American Society of Civil Engineers established H. Bolton Seed Medal in his honor.[5]

References

  1. ^ Mitchell, James (1989). "Biographical Memoirs: Harry Bolton Seed". The National Academies Press. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  2. ^ Seed, H. B. (1947). "Non-elastic deformations in concrete and their effects on design". PhD Thesis. King's College, University of London.
  3. ^ "Harry Bolton Seed". People & Projects. American Society of Civil Engineers. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
  4. ISBN 978-0124406582
  5. ^ "H.B. Seed Medal". Awards. American Society of Civil Engineers. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2011.

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