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Othmar Ammann
Swiss-American structural engineer
Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, 1879 – September 22, 1965) 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 1879.
His father was a manufacturer and his mother was a hat maker. He received his engineering education at the Polytechnikum in Zürich, Switzerland.
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He studied with Swiss engineer Wilhelm Ritter. In 1904, he emigrated to the United States, spending much of his career working in New York City. He became a naturalized citizen in 1924.
In 1905 he briefly returned to Switzerland to marry Lilly Selma Wehrli.
Together they had three children – Werner, George, and Margot – before she died in 1933. He then married Klary Vogt