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- Olivier, Henry
Entry Personal Name
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
- control field: 129586
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
- control field: DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
- control field: 20210315162221.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS
- fixed length control field: 800602n| azannaabn |a aaa
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
- LC control number: n 50028733
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
- System control number: (OCoLC)oca00064110
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
- Original cataloging agency: DLC
- Language of cataloging: eng
- Description conventions: rda
- Transcribing agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: IEN
046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES
- Birth date: 1914-01-25
- Death date: 1994-10-06
- Source of date scheme: edtf
100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME
- Personal name: Olivier, Henry
370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE
- Associated country: South Africa
- Other associated place: Zimbabwe
- Other associated place: Great Britain
- Source of term: naf
372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY
- Field of activity: Water-supply engineering
- Field of activity: Water resources development
- Field of activity: Dams
- Field of activity: Construction projects
- Source of term: lcsh
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: South African Institution of Civil Engineers
- Source of term: naf
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: Lesotho Highlands Water Project
- Source of term: naf
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: South Africa. Department of Water Affairs
- Source of term: naf
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: Great Britain. War Office
- Source of term: naf
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: University of Cape Town
- Source of term: naf
374 ## - OCCUPATION
- Occupation: Civil engineers
- Occupation: Hydraulic engineers
- Source of term: lcsh
375 ## - GENDER
- Gender: male
377 ## - ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE
- Language code: eng
400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME
- Personal name: Olivier, H.
- Fuller form of name: (Henry)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: His Irrigation and climate, 1961.
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: nuc89-104929: Lempberière, F. River control during ... 1984
- Information found: (hdg. on WaWAE rept.: Olivier, Henry; usage: H. Olivier)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014
- Information found: (C.M.G., M.Sc. (Eng.); Ph.D. (Eng.); M.I.C.E., F.ASCE., M.Soc. C.E. (France))
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: International conference, planning and development in Southern Africa, 1978?:
- Information found: page 125 (Dr. Henry Olivier, consulting engineer Johannesburg; contribution: Water resources : interdependence in Southern Africa)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Siviele ingenieurswese, Desember 1994, Tribute to Dr Henry Oliver, viewed online August 2, 2020:
- Information found: page 6 (Dr Henry Olivier, OMSG, CMG, DEng, DSc (Eng) hc; one of the most outstanding engineers South Africa has produced; associated with works in Africa, Asia and Europe; a consultant to the World Bank; born in 1914 in the Karoo town of Sutherland; in his youth taken by his parents to Rhodesia, where he was schooled; won the Beit Junior Engineering Scholarship to study at University of Cape Town; BSc (Civil Engineering) 1936; joined consulting firm in London, worked on designs for hydro-electric power generation in Scottish Highlands; worked for the War Office during World War II; worked in Iran and then Africa, supervised building of Owens Falls Dam, controlling outflow from Lake Victoria for benefit of Uganda, Sudan and Egypt; seconded to International Bank for Reconstruction and Development as project director of the Indus Basin Project; involved in other large dam projects, including in South Africa; in the early 1970s he returned to South Africa as chairman of the South African construction company responsible for part of the Orange-Fish Tunnel; engaged by Department of Water Affairs, including preliminary studies and drafting of treaty for the Lesotho Highlands Project; president of SAICE in 1976)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Who's who 2020 & who was who (UK), search snippet, viewed August 2, 2020
- Information found: (Olivier, Henry, 25 Jan. 1914 - 6 Oct. 1994)
