influences awards birth_date known_for article_title name
peter rolfe vaughan , john burland fellow of the royal academy of engineering 1952 icfep david m. potts -lrb- geotechnics -rrb-
 david malcolm potts
david m. potts -lrb- geotechnics -rrb-

david malcolm potts -lrb- born 1952 -rrb- is a professor of analytical soil mechanics at imperial college london and the head of the geotechnics section at imperial college .
he has been a member of the academic staff at imperial college since 1979 , responsible for teaching the use of analytical methods in geomechanics and the design of slopes and earth retaining structures , both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels .
