Victor Milligan
Victor "Vic" Milligan (born November 11, 1929 in Belfast ; † March 4, 2009 ) was a British - Canadian civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).
Milligan studied civil engineering at Queen's University Belfast , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1951 and his master's degree in soil mechanics in 1952. He then worked as an engineer at James Williamson and Partners in Scotland. In 1954 he went to Purdue University on a scholarship . In 1956 he went to Canada and in 1960 he and Hugh Golder founded the geotechnical engineering company Golder Associates in Mississauga in West Toronto . From 1960 until his retirement in 1995 he was its director. He built the office into one of the leading geotechnical engineering firms with 7000 employees in 160 branches worldwide (2009). From 1980 to 1983 he was adjunct professor at the University of Toronto.
His projects included the 13 km long Northumberland Strait Bridge (from Prince Edward Island to the mainland), the subways in Atlanta , Melbourne , Caracas and the metro network in Singapore , tunnel construction in Toronto, over 50 dams in North America, Greece and Australia .
In 2002 he was a Terzaghi Lecturer . He received honorary doctorates from the University of Waterloo (1990) and Queens University in Belfast (1993). In 1963 he co-founded the Canadian Geotechnical Journal. In 1973 he received the RF Legget Award. In 2001 he became an external member (Fellow) of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2005 an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers .
He was also a noted middle-distance runner in the 1950s . At the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver in 1954 , he finished fourth in the mile run as the leader of the Northern Irish team with his personal best of 4: 05.0 min. In the same year he was Irish champion over this distance. However, his sports career was interrupted by a climbing accident in which he was in a coma for weeks.
Web links
- obituary
- Victor Milligan in the database of TOPS in athletics (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ Life data partly based on American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2005
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Milligan, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Milligan, Vic |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian geotechnician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 2009 |