Soil scientists

Bernard Palissy (c. 1510 – c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain.

Victor Alphons Tiedjens (1895–1975) was an American horticulturist, agronomist, biochemist and soil chemist.

G. Wade Hurt is a soil scientist in the United States and an authority on hydric soils.

Friedrich Albert Fallou (1794–1877) was the German founder of modern soil science.

Robert Elmer Horton (May 18, 1875 – April 22, 1945) was an American ecologist and soil scientist, considered by many to be the father of modern hydrology.

Henry Granger Knight (1878–1942) was an American chemist and soil scientist who served as chief of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, U.

Hans Jenny (7 February 1899 – 9 January 1992) was a soil scientist and expert on pedology (the study of soil in its natural environment), particularly the processes of soil formation.

Heinrich August Vater (born 5 September 1859 in Bremen, died 10 February 1930 in Dresden) was a German soil scientist and forestry scientist.

Georg Wiegner (April 20, 1883 – April 14, 1936) was a colloid chemist.

Ludwig Meyn (1 October 1820, Pinneberg − 4 November 1878, Uetersen), was a German agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist and mineralogist.

L. V. Vaidyanathan ("Vaidy", Palakkad, Kerala, India, 31 May 1928 - 13 November 2000) was a soil scientist.

Alfred Eduard Hartemink (born 14 January 1964, Doetinchem) is a professor of soil science and Department chair at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

John Jacob Mortvedt (January 25, 1932 - March 12, 2012) was an American soil scientist who worked with micronutrient fertilizer.

John Robert Philip FRS (18 January 1927, Ballarat – 26 June 1999, Amsterdam) was an Australian soil physicist and hydrologist, internationally recognized for his contributions to the understanding of movement of water, energy and gases.

James Arthur Prescott, CBE, FRS, (7 October 1890 – 6 February 1987) was an agricultural scientist.

Hugh Hammond Bennett (April 15, 1881 – July 7, 1960) was a pioneer in the field of soil conservation in the United States of America.

Rainer Schulin (* July 22, 1952) is a German zoologist, forest scientist and professor of soil protection at the ETH Zurich.

Jul Låg (13 November 1915 - 2 February 2000) was a Norwegian scientist and soil researcher.

Kamrun Nahar is a Bangladeshi soil scientist and environmentalist.

Levi Stockbridge (March 13, 1820 – May 2, 1904) was a farmer and scientist from Hadley, Massachusetts.

Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (January 5, 1833, Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany – January 8, 1916, Berkeley, California, United States) was a German-American expert on pedology (the study of soil resources).

René Tavernier (26 August 26, 1914, Nevele – 19 November 1992, Ghent) was a Belgian geologist and stratigrapher.

John Keith Syers (1939 – 16 July 2011) was an Anglo-New Zealand academic and academic administrator.

Dr. C. Vernon Cole (1922 – August 30, 2013) was a soil scientist known primarily for his work on nutrient cycling in agroecosystems.

George Nelson Coffey (January 17, 1875 − October 4, 1967) was an American pedologist.

Thomas Lyttleton Lyon (17 February 1869 – October 7, 1938) was an award winning American soil scientist who wrote on the nitrogen cycle.

Bashiru Ademola Raji, FAAS is a Nigerian professor of soil science, Pedologist, geologist, environmental impact assessment expert and incumbent Vice chancellor of Fountain University, Osogbo.

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (February 20, 1841, Newport, Kentucky – April 10, 1906, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution.

Franklin Hiram King (8 June 1848 – 4 August 1911) was an American agricultural scientist who was born on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin, attended country schools, and received his professional training first at Whitewater State Normal School and then at Cornell University.

George Demas (April 28, 1958 – December 23, 1999) was an American pedologist whose pioneering studies of subaqueous soil contributed to the understanding of soil formation and the expansion of the concept of soil.

Edgar Buckingham (July 8, 1867 Philadelphia, PA – April 29, 1940 Washington DC) was a physicist.

Eric Marc Alexander Smaling (born 18 August 1957 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch politician and agronomist.

Emil Truog was born on a farm near Independence, Wisconsin.

Peter Bullock (6 July 1937 – 5 April 2008) was a soil scientist whose initial work in the field of soil micromorphology preceded an interest in land degradation.

William A. Albrecht (1888–1974) PhD, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri, was the foremost authority on the relation of soil fertility to human health and earned four degrees from the University of Illinois.

Leslie Denis Swindale (born 16 March 1928) is a New Zealand-born soil scientist, agriculturist, writer and a former chairman of the Department Agronomy and Soil Science of the University of Hawaii.

Neal Menzies (born 7 December 1959) is an Australian professor of soil science at the University of Queensland.

John Davidson McCraw MBE (13 March 1925 – 14 December 2014) was a New Zealand pedologist, academic, and local historian, particularly of the Central Otago area.

Lyman James Briggs (May 7, 1874 – March 25, 1963) was an American engineer, physicist and administrator.

Albert Israel Schatz (2 February 1920 – 17 January 2005) was an American microbiologist and science educator, best known as a codiscoverer of the antibiotic, streptomycin.

Enrico Mylius Dalgas K.

A soil scientist is a contributor to soil science.

AQM Bazlul Karim (1920–1998) was a Bangladeshi educationist and soil scientist.

Abdul Karim (c. 1922 – December 22, 1973) was a widely published Bangladeshi soil scientist.

Abdul Rashid, (Ph.D.), (born:1950) is a Pakistani Agricultural Scientist and Bioscientist, has served as Member Biosciences of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)from 2008 to 2011.

Arthur Wallace (January 4, 1919 in Bear River City, Utah – October 11, 2008 in Santa Monica, California), was a soil scientist.

C. Fred Bentley, OC AOE FRSC (March 14, 1914 – April 12, 2008) was a Canadian soil scientist.

Dennis James Greenland FRS (13 January 1937 - 23 December 2012) was a British soil scientist, and was Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Reading.

Olivier de Serres (1539 – 1619) was a French author and soil scientist whose Théâtre d'Agriculture (1600) was the textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century.

Saturnin Zawadzki (7 July 1923 in Radom, Poland – 17 September 2003) was a Polish soil scientist.

Pedro Sanchez (born 1940) is the Director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center, Senior Research Scholar, and Director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.