Soil Physics - Prominent Soil Physicists

Prominent Soil Physicists

  • Edgar Buckingham (1867–1940)
The theory of gas diffusion in soil and vadose zone water flow in soil.
  • Lorenzo A. Richards (1904–1993)
General transport of water in unsaturated soil, measurement of soil water potential using tensiometer.
  • John R. Philip (1927–1999)
Analytical solution to general soil water transport, Environmental Mechanics.

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