Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
States, including Boris Bakhmeteff, von
Ippen, and von Mises. Corps hydraulic
work was greatly influenced by Freeman Scholars who had studied in Germany and also by
consultants from the academic community.
At least there are two examples we have there.
Yes, and I suppose if we keep talking, we'll come to some more of them.
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There are probably a lot more of them.
I remember that the Waterways Experiment Station used to have framed pictures of all of the
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old European hydraulicians in the halls of the old Hydraulics Division building going way
back.
was very interested in history.
It's an intriguing point to see how much there is and then what was picked up in these
contacts and actually transported back and implemented in various programs, especially
when you begin having the international congresses like PIANC and all of the international
papers.
Hans Albert Einstein
We've discussed Straub, Lane, Bondurant, and others and mentioned "Young Albert"
Einstein. What about Hans Albert Einstein? I gather he was a specialist in sedimentation.
Yes. He actually came and worked one whole summer with us in Little Rock on the
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sediment problem. That was before we got into the sediment routing. I didn't work with him
then, but he was a very understated man, very nice, very quiet, very retiring. I've heard
people say, "Do you think he'd be where he was if his name wasn't Einstein?" But sediment
is one of those areas where many people have their own theories. Einstein was very helpful
to us on the Arkansas River. I think that Bondurant appreciated his help on the Missouri as
much as we did on the Arkansas.
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So Einstein wasn't as critical to you down in Little Rock as he had been in Omaha?
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he was really more--Al Harrison, whom I suggested you contact, was his student at
Berkeley. Al was just finishing his Masters when Irene and I transferred to Omaha. This is
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