Chapter 8
Move toward Prominence
Publication: Hans Albert Einstein: His Life as a Pioneering Engineer
Abstract
Following the Second World War, Hans Albert's professional prospects brightened because expectations for his Soil Conservation Service (SCS) job shifted squarely back toward sediment transport research. In 1947, Hans Albert gained national prominence when he investigated sediment problems of the Rio Grande River and presented his work at a major conference convened by several U.S. federal agencies. Hans Albert's bed-load method demonstrated reasonable success when applied to small streams like Mountain Creek and West Goose Creek. Hans Albert submitted the progress report on his Rio Grande project on July 29, his last day of work at Caltech, and then packed his stacks of Rio Grande maps, notebooks, and data into boxes to take along to Berkeley. In 1947, Hans Albert Einstein joined the faculty of the Division of Mechanical Engineering in the University of California Berkeley's Department of Engineering.
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Hans Albert Einstein: His Life as a Pioneering Engineer
Pages: 159 - 174
ISBN (Print): 978-0-7844-1330-2
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-7829-5
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Published online: May 29, 2014
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- Bed loads
- Business management
- Construction engineering
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- Employment
- Federal government
- Geology
- Geomorphology
- Geotechnical engineering
- Government
- Mountains
- Organizations
- Personnel management
- Practice and Profession
- Project management
- River and stream beds
- River engineering
- Rivers and streams
- Sediment
- Sediment transport
- Water and water resources
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