User:Paleorthid/Sandbox/Article Nursery/List of Soil Scientists

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

...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?

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