Thomas William Lambe (November 28, 1920 in Raleigh, North Carolina – March 6, 2017 in Sarasota, Florida) was an American geotechnical engineer and an emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1] Lambe studied civil engineering at North Carolina State, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1942.
He studied at MIT starting in 1943, working with Donald Wood Taylor in 1948.
He assisted Karl von Terzaghi and Taylor in their work as consultants.
Lambe was also involved in the Apollo Program for which he designed the soil experiments.