Albert Atterberg

Albert Mauritz Atterberg (born March 19, 1846 in Härnösand , † April 4, 1916 in Kalmar ) was a Swedish chemist and soil mechanic .

Life

Atterberg studied in Stockholm and Uppsala , was director of the Agricultural Research Institute in Kalmar from 1877 and later became a lecturer in chemistry at Uppsala University . In 1911 he introduced the consistency limits of soils (shrinkage limit, roll-out limit and flow limit). They are known after him as "Atterberg limits" or "state limits according to Atterberg", see consistency (soil) . His measuring method for this was further developed by Arthur Casagrande .

As a chemist, among other things, he examined beryllium and its compounds.

Publications

• The rational classification of sands and gravels . In: Chemiker-Zeitung. Volume 29, No. 15, 1905, pp. 195-198. Reprint Kalmar 1905
• About the grain size of the dune sands . In: Chemiker-Zeitung. Volume 29, No. 80, 1905, p. 1074.
• The plasticity of the clays . In: International communications for soil science. Volume 1, 1911, pp. 10-43.
• Lerornas plasticitets- och styfleksgrader , Stockholm: Nymans 1911
• The consistency curves of the mineral soils . In: International communications for soil science. Volume 4, 1914, pp. 418-432.
• Undersökningar öfver metallen Berylliums föreningar , Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens handlingar, NF, 12.5. Stockholm 1873

literature

• Atterberg, Albert Maurits . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : Armatoler – Bergsund . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 359-364 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Wikisource: Albert Atterberg  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Albert Atterberg in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Skempton A history of soil properties 1717-1927 , Proc. 11. ICSMFE, 1985, reprinted in its Selected Works