The Legacy of Vito A. Vanoni

This paper will provide a brief overview of the long and productive life of Prof. Vito A. Vanoni of the California Institute of Technology, a world-renowned authority on the mechanics of transport of sediments by streams and rivers. He was especially noted for his definitive experimental research on the vertical distribution of suspended fine sand in turbulent open-channel flow in a recirculating laboratory flume leading to his Ph.D. in 1940. In his later working years he edited and wrote in part the monumental volume on Sedimentation Engineering, ASCE Manual No. 54, 1975, which has become a classic.