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Othmar Ammann
Swiss-American structural engineer
Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, – September 22, ) was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge.[1][2] He also directed the planning and construction of the Lincoln Tunnel.[3]
Biography
Othmar Ammann was born near Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in His father was a manufacturer and his mother was a hat maker.
Othmar ammann biography definition
He received his engineering education at the Polytechnikum in Zürich, Switzerland. He studied with Swiss engineer Wilhelm Ritter. In , he emigrated to the United States, spending much of his career working in New York City. He became a naturalized citizen in
In he briefly returned to Switzerland to marry Lilly Selma Wehrli.
Together they had three children&#;&#; Werner, George, and Margot&#;&#; before she died in He then married Klary Vogt Noetzli, herself recently widowed, in in Californ