ABSTRACT
KIRPICH 01.11. 1914 Philadelphia PA/USA 27.08. 2008 Miami Beach FL/USA Phillip Zalman Kirpich was educated at University of Pennsylvania, from where he received the BS degree in 1935. He then joined until 1942 two Engineering Departments of American universities, and then served in the US Army until 1946. From 1947 he was an associate with Tippetts-AbbettMcCarthy-Stratton TAMS, New York NY, at their Athens office until 1955, designing hydro, flood control and irrigation projects in Greece, Turkey and Iraq, from when he became chief engineer of the Cauca Valley project in Cali, Columbia, until 1961. From 1962 until retirement in 1990, Kirpich was a hydraulic and chief engineer within the Agriculture Division of the World Bank, concerned with irrigation and water resources projects. He was member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE and its Fellow from 1959, the American Geophysical Union AGU, the International Association of Hydraulic Research IAHR, as well as the International Commission of Irrigation and Drainage ICID. Kirpich was a hydraulic engineer mainly working for large irrigation and hydropower schemes, and an expert of hydrology, to which he contributed a popular note in 1940, relating to the determination of the time of concentration in the rainfall-runoff analysis. Once in Latin America, he studied the Cauca Valley scheme using integrated water resources development and administration. The flood control aspects were found to be greatly affected by power, irrigation and drainage. Kirpich also prepared the chapter Hydrology for the 1952 Handbook edited by Calvin V. Davis (1897-1981). Anonymous (1964). Kirpich, Phillip Z. Who’s who in engineering 9: 1012. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (2009). Kirpich, Phillip Zalman. Trans. ASCE 174: 867-868. Kirpich, P.Z. (1940). Time of concentration of small agricultural watersheds. Civil Engineering 10(6): 362; 10(8): 533. Kirpich, P.Z. (1952). Hydrology. Handbook of applied hydraulics: 1159-1202. McGraw Hill. Kirpich, P.Z., Ospina, C.S. (1959). Flood control aspects of Cauca Valley development. Journal of the Hydraulics Division ASCE 85(HY9): 1-34; 86(HY2): 123-124; 86(HY3): 63-65; 87(HY1): 131-132. Kirpich, P.Z. (1999). Water planning for food production in developing countries. University Press of America: Lanham MD. Kirpich, P.Z. (2000). Comments on Water crisis, current perceptions and future realities. Water International 25(3): 488-491.
