Andrew N. Schofield

Andrew Noel Schofield
Andrew Schofield in 2016
Born	(1930-11-01) 1 November 1930 (age 86) England
Residence	Cambridge, UK
Nationality	English
Fields	Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering
Institutions	Cambridge University, UK University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
Alma mater	Cambridge University, UK
Thesis	The development of lateral force during the displacement of sand by the vertical face of a rotating model foundation (1960)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth H. Roscoe
Notable students	Malcolm D. Bolton, Robert Mair, Sarah Springman
Known for	Critical state soil mechanics, Cam Clay, Geotechnical centrifuge modelling
Influences	Prof. John Baker; G.I. Pokrovsky, USSR; Donald Taylor, MIT; Kenneth H. Roscoe.
Notable awards	US Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award, 1979 20th Rankine Lecture, 1980 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 1986 Fellow of the Royal Society, 1992 James Alfred Ewing Gold Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1993
Spouse	Margaret Green (m.1961)

Andrew Noel Schofield FRSFREng (born 1 November 1930) is a British soil mechanics engineer and an emeritus professor of geotechnical engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Schofield was born on 1 November 1930, son of Rev John Noel Schofield and Winifred Jane Mary Eyles in Cambridge, England. He married Margaret Eileen Green in 1961 (Black 2010). He retired from Cambridge University in 1997.

Andrew Schofield studied engineering and graduated from Christ's College Cambridge in 1951 (Schofield 2005). He then worked in the Nyasaland Protectorate, Africa (now Malawi) office of Scott and Wilson Ltd. where he performed research on lateritic soils and low cost road construction (Rowe 1980). He returned to Cambridge University to work with Professor Kenneth H. Roscoe on his PhD, which he completed in 1961 (Rowe 1980). He became an Assistant Lecturer in 1961 and a Fulbright Fellow and a California Institute of Technology Fellow in 1963/4. He was elected Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge in 1964. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1986 and as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992.

With Ken Roscoe and Peter Wroth in 1958 he published "On the Yielding of Soils", which showed how plasticity theory and critical state soil mechanics could be used to describe the coupled volumetric and shear behavior of soils. (Roscoe, Schofield & Wroth 1958) led to the development of a constitutive model known as 'Cam Clay' that was formalized in the classic text by (Schofield & Wroth 1968).