User:Paleorthid/Sandbox/Article Nursery/List of Soil Scientists
Appearance
Notable soil scientists who need articles
[edit]- George Nelson Coffey (1875-1967), USA, Influential. First American to propose soil be classified on the basis of observed soil morphology vs interpreted pedogenesis.
- Enrico Dalgas (1828-1894), Denmark, pioneer of soil amelioration and naturalist
- Friedrich Albert Fallou (1794-1877), Germany, a founder of modern soil science. Coined the term pedology.
- Pavel Andreyevich Kostychev (1845-1895), Russia
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Sibirtsev, Russia
- Gavriil Ivanovich Tanfilyev (1857-1928), Russia
Fallou hook
[edit]- ...that Friedrich Albert Fallou, the founder of modern soil science, was an independent scientist, not attached to any academic institution?
- ...that Friedrich Albert Fallou, the founder of modern soil science, was an independent scientist?
- ...that Friedrich Albert Fallou, the founder of modern soil science, was a land value tax assessor?
- ...that Friedrich Albert Fallou, the founder of modern soil science, was a lawyer?
- ...that Friedrich Albert Fallou, the founder of modern soil science, was a land value tax assessor who studied soil as an independent scientist?
- ...that Friedrich Albert Fallou, the founder of modern soil science, was a land value tax assessor who's published works established him as an independent scientist?
Fallou hobby
[edit]he initially "studied soil as a hobby".[1][2]
- ^ Hartemink, Alfred E. (2010). Soil profiles: the more we see, the more we understand (PDF). 19th World Congress of Soil Science.
...studied jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig (Germany). He worked as a land tax assessor (Asio 2005) and was interested in mineralogy. Fallou was never married. His love of nature turned his attention to soils - he studied soils as a hobby and published Pedologie oder allgemeine und besondere Bodenkunde (Fallou 1862)
- ^ Asio, V.B. (2005). "Comments on "Historical development of soil and weathering profile concepts from Europe to the United States of America"". Soil Science Society of America Journal. 69 (2): 571–572. doi:10.2136/sssaj2005.0571.
Fallou studied geology and law, he worked as a land tax assessor and pursued the study of soil as a hobby