This award was established in 1999 by the Geo-Institute of the Society in honor of Ralph B. Peck, Hon.M.ASCE.
By John Dunnicliff and Nancy Peck Young.
Ralph B. Peck, Professor Emeritus of Foundation Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign died of congestive heart failure on February 18, 2008, at his home in Albuquerque , New Mexico . He was born in Winnipeg , Canada.
by Karl Terzaghi, Ralph B. Peck , Gholamreza Mesri ISBN: 0471086584 —YOU MUST OWN THIS BOOK
A private compilation of Terzaghi’s works has been uncovered—see the Terzaghi Libraries and Museums.
Karl Terzaghi used cigarette boxes to do his tests while developing the consolidation theory.
People who see this photo say “if you worked there you were bound to invent something”
(1820 – 1872) “Rankine was no ordinary man…