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Harry
Bolton Seed (August 19, 1922
– April 23, 1989) was an educator, scholar, former Professor at the University of California,
Berkeley. He was regarded as the founding father of geotechnical
earthquake engineering.
Harry Bolton Seed was born in Bolton, England, on August 19, 1922 into a family of a cotton mill
manager. His father was Arthur Bolton Seed, and his mother's maiden name was
Annie Wood; his sister Dorothy was nine years older than he was. He spent his
childhood in Lancashire and attended Farnworth Grammar School, where he
exhibited talent both at sports and academics. At the age of eighteen he chose
a scholarship to King's College London over a possible professional soccer career. Seed's
studies were interrupted by the Second World War, when he served the military as a lieutenant. After military
service, Seed returned to the University of London to finish his study, and received a BSc in Civil
Engineering in 1944 and a PhD in Structural Engineering in 1947. His thesis
title was "Non-elastic deformations in concrete and their effects on
design". Seed also captained the University of London's
soccer team, and the All-England team during this period. Following two years
as assistant lecturer at King's College, Seed came to Harvard University to study soil mechanics under the tutelage of
engineering giants Karl Terzaghi and Arthur Casagrande. He
received his S.M. degree from Harvard in 1948 and spent the next year as an
instructor at Harvard, followed by a year as a foundation engineer for Thomas
Worcester, Inc., in Boston.
In 1950 Seed joined the civil engineering faculty at the University of California,
Berkeley, where he finished his career as an educator, researcher
and consultant to public agencies and private businesses. He built up the
geotechnical engineering program at Berkeley into one of the best in the world.
He served as chair of the Civil Engineering Department from 1965 to 1971. He
successfully guided fifty PhD degree candidates to complete their dissertations
during his career. He died of cancer at his home in Orinda, California on
August 23, 1989. Professor Seed's published nearly 300 papers and reports on
various topics on Geotechnical Engineering.
His early research on pile-soil interaction, soil compaction and pavement
formed the scientific basis for modern design. In the 1960s he established a
new research area, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and he is commonly
regarded as the founding father of this area. His pioneering works included the
development of equivalent linear method (SHAKE) for seismic site response
analysis, soil structure interaction analysis,
evaluation and mitigation of soil liquefaction, etc. He investigated many major disasters,
such as the 1964 Great Alaska earthquake,
the 1971 San Fernando
earthquake in California, the 1976 failure of the Teton dam, the 1979 slide at the port of Nice in
France, and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. He
served as a consultant on hundreds of projects all over the world, including
more than 100 major dams, more than 20 nuclear power plants, and innumerable
major buildings and transportation facilities. His research, founded on sound
scientific principles, have led to a total revision of concepts and methods for
geotechnical earthquake design, as well as revision of codes of practice,
design procedures, and regulations throughout the world.
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