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 | #4614671 in Books |  Springer |  2005-05-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.69 x6.14l,1.24 | File type: PDF | 294 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Knowing Terzaghi in detail|By Poul Lade|A review of Reint de Boer's book on "The Engineer and the Scandal: A Piece of Science History" (Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2005)

The book deals with the life of Karl Terzaghi, the Father of Soil Mechanics. Thus, it is more than the events leading up to and the very "scandal," which consists of a clash in 1938|From the Back Cover||The Engineer and the Scandal gives an in-depth study into an important part of the development of the Theory of Porous Media as well as the amazing story of the glittering life of Professor Karl von Terzaghi. It provides an

Offers an eye-opening and revealing look into an interpersonal/scientific conflict involving the ‘Father of Modern Soil Mechanics’ Karl von Terzaghi.

Exemplifies the ‘human side’ of science in which, sometimes, the prominence of a theorist and the inertia of the ‘accepted wisdom’ can inhibit progress and rational discussion of the facts.

More than 100 illustrations combine with historical details in the...

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