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List of soil scientists information


A soil scientist is a contributor to soil science. Soil scientists include agrologists, pedologists and soil classifiers.

The following is a list of notable soil scientists.

Name Birth/death Country Remark
William Albrecht 1888–1974 USA
Joselito (Lito) M. Arocena 1959–2015 Canada Founding member of University of Northern British Columbia and became its first Canada Research Chair in 2001
Mary C. Baltz 1923–2011 USA First woman soil scientist officially assigned in the field for NRCS
Vera A. Baltz 1866–1943 Russia One of the first female soil scientists in Russia
Percy Edgar Brown 1885–1937 USA
Johan Bouma 1940– Netherlands
John Catt 1939–2017 UK Paleopedologist
George Nelson Coffey 1875–1967 USA Pioneer of American soil classification
Enrico Dalgas 1828–1894 Denmark Pioneer of soil amelioration and naturalist
Charles Darwin 1809–1882 UK Father of modern soil science. First scholarly treatment of soil forming processes
Johanna Döbereiner 1924–2000 Brazil Prominent Brazilian agronomist
Vasily V. Dokuchaev 1840–1903 Russia Variously the father of modern soil science, pedology, soil geography
Friedrich Albert Fallou 1794–1877 Germany Founder of modern soil science; coined the term "pedology"
W. B. George 1899–1972 Canada Kemptville Agricultural School lecturer and chairman of the Fertilizer Advisory Board of Ontario
Konstantin Glinka 1867–1927 Russia Prominent Russian soil scientist
Eugene W. Hilgard 1833–1916 USA Father of modern soil science in the USA
Francis D. Hole 1913–2002 USA Pedologist and educator
Aminul Islam 1935–2017 Bangladesh Soil horizon of Bangladesh land
Hans Jenny 1899–1992 USA Influential pedologist
Franklin Hiram King 1848–1911 USA Father of American soil physics
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Krasil'nikov 1896–1973 Russia Microbiologist
Justus von Liebig 1803–1873 Germany Father of soil chemistry
Thomas Lyttleton Lyon 1869–1938 USA
Curtis F. Marbut 1863–1935 USA Father of American pedology
Sławomir Miklaszewski 1874–1949 Poland Founder of the Polish pedologie scientific school
John Mortvedt 1932–2012 USA Micronutrient fertilizer researcher
Bernard Palissy ~1510–1590 France First to research amending soil to replenish minerals
Ana Maria Primavesi 1920–2020 Brazil Prominent Brazilian soil scientist
Bashiru Ademola Raji Nigeria
Lorenzo A. Richards 1904–1993 USA Soil physicist
Pedro A. Sanchez 1940– USA World food systems visionary
Olivier de Serres 1529–1619 France Promoted crop rotation as a way of preserving soil nutrients
Emil Truog 1884–1969 USA
Guy D. Smith 1907–1981 USA
Selman Waksman 1888–1973 USA Soil microbiologist

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