 Henri Vidal (engineer)

Henri Vidal (10 February 1924 in Draguignan - 29 November 2007) is a French civil engineer, known for the invention, in 1963 of "Terre Armée" or reinforced earth also known as Mechanically stabilized earth.Vidal entered the École Polytechnique in 1944 and graduated from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1949.