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Maurice Lugeon

Laureate 1932: Maurice Lugeon

“[…] for his work ‘Dams and geology’. By publishing this important work, which was the result of his many years of experience, Maurice Lugeon made a highly valuable contribution to furthering our knowledge of the art of building large dams, and in so doing did a great service to science and humanity.”

L.s Buch entstand in der Absicht, den Bauingenieuren die nötigen Einsichten zu vermitteln über das optimale Zusammenspiel zwischen Talsperren und den physikalisch-chemischen Eigenschaften der im Bereich der Werke auftretenden Gesteinsarten. Dies sei ausserordentlich verdienstvoll, so die Gutachter, denn damit werde eine grosse Lücke im Grenzgebiet zwischen Geologie und Ingenieurwissenschaften ausgefüllt: Die meisten bisherigen Katastrophen im Staudammbau seien nämlich wegen mangelnder Kenntnis und fehlender Berücksichtigung der geologischen Verhältnisse entstanden.

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Marcel Benoist Foundation
State Secretariat for Education,
Research and Innovation SERI
Einsteinstrasse 2
CH – 3003 Bern

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