Robert Legget

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Robert Ferguson Legget (born September 29, 1904 in Liverpool , † April 17, 1994 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ) and geologist.

Legget studied civil engineering at the University of Liverpool with a bachelor's degree in 1925 and a master's degree in 1927. He then worked as a constructive engineer in the construction industry in Great Britain and then in Canada. In 1936 he became a lecturer at Queen's University in Kingston (Ontario) and then professor at the University of Toronto . In 1947 he became director of the building research department of the National Research Council of Canada. In 1969 he retired.

Legget is known for his contributions to engineering geology and building code standardization in Canada. He wrote books about historic canals and railways in Canada and was involved in the preservation of the canal systems. For example, he was instrumental in a movement to conserve water resources and canals from the 1940s and in 1946 he was behind the Conservation Authorities Act of the Province of Ontario.

In 1977 he was Terzaghi Lecturer ( Geology and geotechnical engineering ). He received thirteen honorary doctorates : from McMaster University in 1961 , from the University of Waterloo in 1963 , from Queen's University in 1966 , from the University of Western Ontario , the University of New Brunswick , the University of Toronto and Charles University in Prague in 1971, from the University of Liverpool and that of the University of Glasgow , of the Clarkson College of Technology , the Technical University of Nova Scotia and Sir George Williams University in 1972 and of Carleton University in 1974 . 1959/60 he was head of the engineering geology department of the Geological Society of America . He was the founding president of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 1966 he was President of the Geological Society of America. In 1972 he received the Logan Medal of the Geological Association of Canada, in 1974 the Claire P. Holdredge Award of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, he received the Royal Bank Award and in 1977 the William Smith Medal of the Geological Society of London. In 1967 he became an Officer and in 1969 Companion of the Order of Canada . He was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada (1956) and the National Academy of Engineering (1988) and an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1983).

The highest honor of the Canadian Geotechnical Society, the RF Legget Award, is named after him.

Fonts

  • with Allen W. Hatheway: Geology and Engineering, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill 1988 (the first edition of Legget was published in 1939)
  • with PF Karrow: Handbook of Geology in Civil Engineering, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill 1983
  • Cities and Geology, McGraw Hill 1973
  • Rideau Waterway, University of Toronto Press 1955, 1972, 1986 (History of the Rideau Canal )
  • Ottawa Waterway, Gateway to a Continent, University of Toronto Press 1975
  • Ottawa River Canals and the defense of British North America, University of Toronto Press 1988
  • Canals of Canada, Vancouver 1976
  • Railways of Canada, Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1973
  • Railroads of Canada, New York 1973
  • Canadian Railways in Pictures, Vancouver 1977
  • as editor: Glacial Till - an interdisciplinary study, Royal Society of Canada, National Research Council of Canada, 1976
  • with Charles Disney: Modern Railroad Structures, McGraw Hill 1949
  • as editor: Building under cities, Geological Society of America 1982
  • Standards in Canada, Ottawa, Information Canada, 1971
  • with MC Baker: Directory of standards in building, National Research Council of Canada 1968
  • as editor: Soils in Canada; geological, pedological, and engineering studies, University of Toronto Press 1961

He was the editor of the Canadian Building series for the University of Toronto Press.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Robert Legget Addresses Clarkson Commencement Today Newspaper article dated May 21, 1972
  2. ^ Obituary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
personal data
SURNAME Legget, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Legget, Robert Ferguson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian civil engineer (geotechnical) and engineering geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1994
Place of death Ottawa