ABSTRACT
It is doubtless that Soil Mechanics (now Geotechnical Engineering) has been established owing to the essential contribution of Karl Tcrzaghi when he started his activity at MIT in 1925 and organized the first International Conference in this field eleven years later at Harvard. His work has been developed thanks to achievements of his assistants and after-comers like G. Gilboy, A. Casagrande, D. W. Taylor, T. W. Lambe and many others. It is seasonable to mention the outstanding co-operative work carried out with MIT by foreign researchers like Laurits Bjerrum, who was director of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. The paper shows also some highlights of efforts undertaken by the MIT geotechnical group along the years, as well as the number of Doctors and specialists promoted at MIT during the second half of the XXth century.
