A soil scientist is a contributor to soil science. Soil scientists include agronomists, 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 NRCSVera A. Baltz1866–1943RussiaOne 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 pedologyAlex McBratneyAustraliaProminent Australian soil scientist 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