List of soil scientists


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.
NameBirth/deathCountryRemark
William Albrecht1888-1974USA
Mary C. Baltz1923-2011USAFirst woman soil scientist officially assigned in the field for NRCS
Percy Edgar Brown1885-1937USA
Johan Bouma1940-Netherlands
John Catt1939-2017UKPaleopedologist
George Nelson Coffey1875-1967USAPioneer of American soil classification
Enrico Dalgas1828-1894DenmarkPioneer of soil amelioration and naturalist
Charles Darwin1809-1882UKFather of modern soil science. First scholarly treatment of soil forming processes
Johanna Döbereiner1924-2000BrazilProminent Brazilian agronomist
Vasily V. Dokuchaev1840-1903RussiaVariously the father of modern soil science, pedology, soil geography
Friedrich Albert Fallou1794-1877GermanyFounder of modern soil science; coined the term "pedology"
Konstantin Glinka1867-1927RussiaProminent Russian soil scientist
Eugene W. Hilgard1833-1916USAFather of modern soil science in the USA
Francis D. Hole1913-2002USAPedologist and educator
Aminul Islam1935-2017BangladeshSoil horizon of Bangladesh land
Hans Jenny1899-1992USAInfluential pedologist
Franklin Hiram King1848-1911USAFather of American soil physics
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Krasil'nikov1896-1973RussiaMicrobiologist
Justus von Liebig1803-1873GermanyFather of soil chemistry
Thomas Lyttleton Lyon1869-1938USA
Curtis F. Marbut1863-1935USAFather of American pedology
Sławomir Miklaszewski1874-1949PolandFounder of the Polish pedologie scientific school
John Mortvedt1932-2012USAMicronutrient fertilizer researcher
Bernard Palissy~1510-1590FranceFirst to research amending soil to replenish minerals
Ana Maria Primavesi1920-2020BrazilProminent Brazilian soil scientist
Bashiru Ademola RajiNigeria
Lorenzo A. Richards1904-1993USASoil physicist
Pedro A. Sanchez1940-USAWorld food systems visionary
Olivier de Serres1529-1619FrancePromoted crop rotation as a way of preserving soil nutrients
Emil Truog1884-1969USA
Guy D. Smith1907-1981USA
Selman Waksman1888-1973USASoil microbiologist