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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