Alfred John Sutton Pippard MBE FRS (6 April 1891 – 2 November 1969) was a British civil engineer and academic. Pippard was the son of a carpenter and joiner and spent much of his early life helping his father on construction sites. Initially supposed to follow his father into the family business Pippard instead decided to study for a bachelors degree in civil engineering at the University of Bristol supporting himself with an Exhibition award.
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