List of soil scientists

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

The following is a list of famous soil scientists

• George Nelson Coffey, American, first in the USA to propose that soil is an independent natural body, to be classified on the basis of its own properties
• Enrico Dalgas (1828–1894), Danish, pioneer of soil amelioration and naturalist
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British, first scholarly treatment of soil forming processes
• Vasily V. Dokuchaev (1840–1903), Russian father of soil science
• Eugene W. Hilgard (1833–1916), American father of modern soil science in the USA
• Hans Jenny (1899–1992), American
• Franklin Hiram King (1848–1911), American father of soil physics in the USA
• Pavel Andreyevich Kostychev (1845–1895), Russian
• Nikolai Aleksandrovich Krasil'nikov (1896–1973), a Russian microbiologist
• Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), German father of soil chemistry
• Curtis F. Marbut (1863–1935), American father of pedology in the USA
• John Mortvedt (1932-2012), American soil scientist who researched micronutrient fertilizer
• Bernard Palissy (~1510–1590), French – Conducted first scientific study of soil amendment to replenish minerals
• Olivier de Serres (1529–1619), French – Promoted crop rotation as a way of preserving soil nutrients
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Sibirtsev, Russian
• Gavriil Ivanovich Tanfilyev (1857–1928), Russian
• Selman Waksman (1888–1973), an American soil microbiologist
• Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953), Russian