Nilmar Janbu

Nilmar Oskar Charles Janbu was a Norwegian engineer and geotechnician.
He was born in Fræna Municipality. He graduated in civil engineering from the Norwegian [Institute of Technology] in 1947, and in geotechnics from Harvard University in 1949. His dr. thesis from 1954 was titled Stability analysis of slopes with dimensionless parameters. He was appointed professor of geotechnics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1961. He was Rankine Lecturer 1985, discussing solutions to problems in Offshore [geotechnical engineering|offshore engineering].
He died in 2013.