Eladio Dieste Saint Martin, Uruguayan structural engineer and architect (Artigas 10 December 1917 – Montevideo 19 July 2000)

Created and developed structural ceramics or reinforced brick

Invented two kinds of vault: self-carrying vaults and Gaussian vaults

Developed techniques to achieve resistant structures such as pre-stressing of brickwork and moveable formworks

Designed and built special machines and devices for construction

Developed special details and calculation techniques

Enunciated a theorem that relates moments integral along the directrix of vault to moment in each point in Un Nuevo teorema sobre estructuras laminares.