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12 Facts About Mario Salvadori

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Mario G Salvadori was an American structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University.

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Mario Salvadori was a skillful mountain climber; he found several new climbing routes on Dolomites.

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Mario Salvadori earned doctoral degrees in both civil engineering and mathematics from the University of Rome in 1930 and 1933, respectively.

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Subsequently, when he returned to Rome, Mario Salvadori was a convinced critic of the regime of Benito Mussolini, and was aware of the risks for his mother's family.

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In 1939, when Mussolini promulgated the Italian Racial Laws, Mario Salvadori left Italy with his wife, who was Jewish.

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From 1954 to 1960, Mario Salvadori worked as a consultant and then principal at Weidlinger Associates, an engineering firm in New York City.

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Mario Salvadori then became a partner until 1991, when he became honorary chairman.

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Mario Salvadori was considered to be an authority on structural failure, and, as a forensic engineer helped to investigate numerous building failures due to natural disasters such as earthquakes and human error in construction or design.

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Mario Salvadori died in Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, on June 25,1997, of natural causes, at the age of 90.

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Mario Salvadori was at the time the James Renwick Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Architecture Emeritus at Columbia.

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Mario Salvadori was the author of both well-respected textbooks on architectural structures and applied mathematics and books for the lay reader.

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Mario Salvadori is known for his translation of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks into English, and of Emily Dickinson's poems into Italian.