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English engineer (1895–1988)

Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was an English engineer who founded Arup Group Limited, a multinational corporation offering engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems.^[1] Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time.

Personal life and education

Arup was born in Newcastle, England, in 1895,^[2] to the Danish veterinary surgeon Jens Simon Johannes Arup and his Norwegian wife, Mathilde Bolette Nyquist.

Arup attended the Sorø Academy in Denmark, a boarding school influenced by Thomas Arnold of Rugby School in the United Kingdom.

Ove arup biography of william hill

In 1913, he began studying philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and in 1918 enrolled in an engineering degree at the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen,^[3] specializing in reinforced concrete.

He completed his studies in 1922. At this ti