Dear all,
It is with sadness that we have learned that Professor Ronald F. Scott of
the California Institute of Technology died Tuesday August 16, 2005 at his
home in neighboring Altadena after a long battle with cancer. He was 76.
A native of Scotland, Professor Scott earned a bachelor's degree at Glasgow
University and moved to the United States in 1951 to obtain his master's
degree and doctorate in soil mechanics at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. After additional research at MIT, he became a soil engineer for
the Army Corps of Engineers and then with Racey, McCallum and Associates in
Canada. Scott joined the Caltech faculty in 1958 and in 1987 was named the
Dottie and Dick Hayman Professor of Engineering. He retired in 1998. He won
the American Society of Civil Engineers' Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering
Research Prize in 1969 and the American Assn. for the Advancement of
Science's Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1976. Scott was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering in 1974. He is survived by his wife, Pam, and three
sons, Grant, Rod and Craig.
Professor Jean-Pierre Bardet
Civil Engineering Department
Kaprielian Hall
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-2531
Tel: 213 740 0608
Fax: 213 744 1426
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Webpage: http://geoinfo.usc.edu/bardet
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