Eugen Meyer-Peter

Eugen Meyer-Peter (born February 25, 1883 in Herisau , † June 18, 1969 in Zurich ) was a Swiss hydraulic engineer and university professor .

Life

He spent his youth in Herisau (Canton Appenzell). From 1901 to 1905 he studied civil engineering at the ETH Zurich .

He was then employed by Conradin Zschokke in the company . He was employed at the port construction in Dieppe, at the Rhine power station Augst / Wyhlen , at the Albulawer and at the Aare power station (Beznau) Felsenau. From 1909 to 1917 he was in charge of port construction in Venice and from 1918 was head of the technical offices of Zschokke-Ag in Geneva.

In 1920 he was appointed professor at the ETH Zurich. His research institute project was approved in 1924 and implemented with the help of donations. Commissioning took place in 19830. In 1935, the Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, a department for soil mechanics and foundation engineering, and in 1941 for hydrology were attached. In addition to fundamental research in the field of channel hydraulics and in particular sediment movement, he carried out numerous hydraulic model tests for hydraulic engineering projects and was an expert for high-performance river and power plants. He was one of the founders of the Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos .

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1933 by the University of Zurich and in 1950 by the University of Grenoble . In 1952 he ended his teaching activities and in 1953 also the management of the research institute. Meyer-Peter became known as a researcher for his formula for calculating bed load transport in rivers. He and his colleagues, in particular Hans Albert Einstein , Henry Favre and Robert Müller , gained the basics from numerous laboratory tests and field measurements. The aforementioned have reported on this work several times. Lit .: 192, 234, 235

Individual evidence

↑ Ramachandran Janardan Garde , History of Fluvial Hydraulics, p. 45
↑ Georg Schnitter Prof. Dr. Hc. Eugen Meyer Peter + Water and Energy Industry 61st year 1969 No. 9/10, pp. 305–306 Daniel Vischer. 125 years of hydraulic engineering at ETH Zurich. For Gerold Schnitter's 80th birthday. Swiss engineer and architect, born 98, 1980, No. 43, pp. 1065–1070 Daniel Vischer, On the 100th birthday of Professor Eugen Meyer-Peter, VAW Annual Report 1982, pp. 7–9 Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Hydrology and Glaciology of the Swiss Federal University of Zurich, Zurich, 1982.

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer-Peter, Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss hydraulic engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herisau
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1969
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Ramachandran Janardan Garde , History of Fluvial Hydraulics, p. 45

[2] Georg Schnitter Prof. Dr. Hc. Eugen Meyer Peter + Water and Energy Industry 61st year 1969 No. 9/10, pp. 305–306 Daniel Vischer. 125 years of hydraulic engineering at ETH Zurich. For Gerold Schnitter's 80th birthday. Swiss engineer and architect, born 98, 1980, No. 43, pp. 1065–1070 Daniel Vischer, On the 100th birthday of Professor Eugen Meyer-Peter, VAW Annual Report 1982, pp. 7–9 Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Hydrology and Glaciology of the Swiss Federal University of Zurich, Zurich, 1982.