Contributors

The website was created in collaboration with Mrs. Nancy Peck-Young, daughter of Professor Ralph Peck. The website is sponsored by the Shamsher Prakash Foundation.

The website also benefited from an Advisory Panel that consisted of:

Prof. Edward J. Cording, Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.

Professor Ricardo Dobry, Professor, RPI.

Dr. Suzanne Lacasse, Director, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI).

Prof. Shamsher Prakash, Emeritus Professor, University of Missouri-Rolla.

If you have any information related to Prof. Peck, we invite you to share it with the Profession through this website and of course your contribution will be acknowledged. Please contact us.

Reference Publications

J. Dunnicliff and D.U. Deere, (1989) "Judgment in Geotechnical Engineering - The Professional Legacy of Ralph B. Peck". John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Elmo DiBiagio, Kaare Flaate, (2000). Publication NR. 207: Ralph B. Peck “Engineer, Educator, A Man of Judgement”. Norwegian Geotechnical Institute(NGI), Oslo.

J. Dunnicliff and Nancy Peck Young, (2006). Ralph B. Peck, Educator and Engineer. "The Essence of the Man".

Geo-Strata Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 7,September/October 2008. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Communications with other Contributors

Take a moment to review the below listing of e-mail communications from individuals that contributed related interesting material to this website:

>>>E-mail from Scott A. Barnhil
>>>E-mail from George Compton
>>>E-mail from Prof. Shamsher Prakash
>>>E-mail from Dr. Bengt Fellenius

Elmo DiBiagio, Kaare Flaate, (2000). Publication Nr. 207: Ralph B. Peck “Engineer, Educator, A Man of Judgement”. Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo

Ralph B. Peck developed a very close professional and personal relationship with NGI's (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute) first director, Laurits Bjerrum. Following Bjerrum's death in 1973, he kept in contact with NGI. Suzanne Lacasse, Managing Director of NGI from 1991 to 2011, also had a very close relationship with Peck. In connection with the opening, NGI published Publication 207, "Professor Ralph B. Peck - Engineer, Educator, a Man of Judgement", which recounts the story of the events that lead to the establishment of the Peck Library and Peck's professional and private life.

John Dunnicliff and Nancy Peck Young, (2007). "Ralph B. Peck, Educator and Engineer - The Essence of the Man". BiTech Publishers Ltd, Vancouver.

This review flows from the latter camp, a place where Dr. Peck is widely recognized for his ultimately practical engineering wisdom. He cannot help but be a genuine hero to geological practitioners who have learned from his writings and from occasional attendance at his lectures and oral papers. We geologists see him mainly in the light of his remarkable ability to detect and grasp the practical essentials and then, with the true calling of a great engineer, to pass his own proven lessons-learned on to us. Regrettably, however, this tribute is devoid of commentary by the many geologists who have crossed Ralph Peck's path over the years.

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