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Zhao Qiguo (Chinese: 赵其国; 25 February 1930 – 3 January 2023) was a Chinese soil scientist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [1] He was president of the Soil Science Society of China from 1987 to 1995.
The Science Society of China (simplified Chinese: 中国科学社; traditional Chinese: 中國科學社, 1915-1960) was a major science organization in the modern history of China. It was initiated by Chinese students at Cornell University in 1914, including P.C. King , H. C. Zen , Zhou Ren , Hsingfo Yang and later renamed Science Society of China.
Established in 1917, the China Association of Agricultural Science Societies (CAASS, Chinese: 中国农学会), or Chinese Society of Agriculture is the oldest agricultural science and technology organization in China, serving as both a witness to and a proponent of the advancement of modern agricultural science and technology in the country.
A soil scientist examining horizons within a soil profile. Soil science is the study of soil as a natural resource on the surface of the Earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.
In his two books First Principles of Soil Science (1857, 2nd ed. 1865) and Pedology or General and Special Soil Science (1862) Friedrich Albert Fallou developed his collected field observations of soil into a systematic approach. He explained why soil formation was worthy of study and appealed for recognition of soil science as a discipline. In ...
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 ...
The International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), founded in 1924 under the name International Society of Soil Science, is a scientific union and member of the International Science Council (ISC). The Union has 86 national and regional member societies with about 60,000 scientists [ 1 ] in several countries and individual members in 57 countries.
A native of Cuba, Sanchez received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in soil science from Cornell University, and joined the faculty of North Carolina State University in 1968. His professional career has been dedicated to help eliminate world hunger and absolute rural poverty while protecting and enhancing the tropical environment.