Raúl Sáez

[1] Sáez was born in 1913 to a Chilean military officer who married his cousin.

Back in Chile in 1931, he enrolled in the School of Engineering at Universidad de Chile in Santiago, where he soon reached the top of his class and eventually became the best student of the university.

He has been called "Chile's greatest maker of works of progress in the second half of the 20th century".

[citation needed] He is also well-remembered for leading the effort to avert the overflowing of Riñihue Lake in the aftermath of the devastating Great Chilean earthquake of 22 May 1960 (see Riñihuazo).

[2] Raúl Sáez died on 24 November 1992, a week after he was awarded the National Prize for Engineering and only one day after the Chilean government awarded him the National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technologies.