Mario Salvadori (1907-1997) was a structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University. He was born in Rome, Italy in 1907. His father, an engineer who worked for the telephone company, became the chief engineer of the city of Genoa when the phone company merged with their French counterpart. Salvadori's father later became the head of the gas and electric company in Spain. As a consequence, Salvador...
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Mario Salvadori (1907-1997) was a structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University. He was born in Rome, Italy in 1907. His father, an engineer who worked for the telephone company, became the chief engineer of the city of Genoa when the phone company merged with their French counterpart. Salvadori's father later became the head of the gas and electric company in Spain. As a consequence, Salvadori spent many years of his youth in Madrid and only returned to Italy in 1923. He earned doctoral degrees in both civil engineering and mathematics from the University of Rome in 1930 and 1933 respectively. The next two years he did graduate research in Photo-elasticity at University College in London. Subsequently, he returned to Rome, where he served as an instructor at the University of Rome. Salvadori left Italy in 1938 for New York at the recommendation of his teacher and friend, Enrico Fermi.
He first worked for Lionel Train Company until...
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