Johnson, J. W. (Joe William), 1908-2002

found: LCCN 57-63015: University of California, Berkeley. Hydraulic Laboratory. Conference on sediment problems in California, 1957?(hdg.: Johnson, Joe William, 1908- ; usage: J.W. Johnson)

found: University of California website, Jan. 27, 2021(Joseph William Johnson was born on July 19, 1908, in Pittsburgh [that is Pittsburg], Kansas, and died on April 11, 2002, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 93. He was professor emeritus of hydraulic engineering, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a pioneer in the field of coastal engineering. Joe, as he was always known, grew up in Winslow, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from UC Berkeley in 1931 and 1934, respectively. After graduating, he spent a year at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He then transferred to the Soil Conservation Service in Washington, D.C., where he worked on sediment transportation from 1935 until 1942; In July 1942, Joe was appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley; pioneer in the newly developing field of coastal engineering; In 1946, Joe was promoted to associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and in 1952 he was appointed professor of hydraulics in the Department of Civil Engineering, where he remained until his retirement in 1975) - https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/JosephWilliamJohnson.htm