Rudolph Glossop

Rudolph Glossop ( born February 17, 1902 in Bakewell, † March 1, 1993 in Cornwall ) was a British geotechnical engineer.

Glossop studied at the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College, where he graduated in 1924. Then he worked as a mining engineer in Canada, taught briefly at Birmingham University, and then to work as a civil engineer in the construction company John Mowlem & Co. from 1930 in power plant projects and metro projects. Mid-1930s, he worked during the recession as a mining engineer and headed in the Gold Coast a mine. From 1937 he was back in England, where he worked for his old company Mowlem on the London subway extension. With proper soil mechanics he arrived at the rehabilitation works of the dam slid down Chingford in contact with the Karl Terzaghi served as consultant and of the often regarded as the founding date of the modern soil mechanics in England. Glossop initiated locally a bottom- mechanical laboratory in collaboration with the Building Research Station ( BRS). He saved the laboratory also about the time when he was at the beginning of World War II engaged in the construction of airports, and in 1943 he founded with Hugh Golder ( who came from the BRS to Mowlem ) and Harold Harding ( Chief of Mowlem ) the geotechnical laboratory Soil Mechanics Ltd. , the first of its kind in England, that was successful and expanded rapidly. Glossop was its director from 1944 to 1973 and from 1951 also in the line of Mowlems.

He was also involved significantly in 1948 to the founding of the journal Géotechnique with Golder. Also at the founding of the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 1965 he was involved. He was co-founder of the subgroup Engineering Geology of the Geological Society and its director from 1965 to 1968. In 1968 he was Lecturer Rankine ( The rise of Geotechnology and its influence in engineering practice). In 1970 he became a Fellow of the Imperial College in 1978 the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 1962 he received the George Stephenson Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Glossop also wrote historical works for geotechnical engineering, for example, via soil injection and the use of compressed air in the tunnels and shafts.