Don Kirkham
Don Kirkham | |
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| Born | (1908-02-11)February 11, 1908 Provo, Utah |
| Died | March 7, 1998(1998-03-07) (aged 90) Ames, Iowa |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Spouse | Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Erwin Kirkham |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Agriculture (1983/4), Robert E. Horton Medal (1995) [1] |
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| Fields | soil science |
| Institutions | Utah State University, Iowa State University |
| Thesis | The variation of the initial susceptibility with temperature and the variation of the magnetostriction and reversible susceptibility with temperature and magnetization in nickel (1938) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shirley Leon Quimby |
Don Kirkham (February 11, 1908 – March 7, 1998) was an American soil scientist regarded as the founder of mathematical soil physics.[2] His special interest was the flow of water through soils and drainage of agricultural land. He was awarded the 1983/4 Wolf Prize in Agriculture and the Robert E. Horton Medal in 1995.[1]
Selected publications
- Kirkham, D.; Powers, William L. (1972). Advanced soil physics. New York: Wiley Interscience. ISBN 0-471-48875-5.
References
- ^ a b Nielsen, D. R.; Brutsaert, W.; Kirkham, D. (1995). "Kirkham receives Horton Medal". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 76 (29): 292–293. Bibcode:1995EOSTr..76..292.. doi:10.1029/95EO00176.
- ^ "Kirkham biography". Soil Science Society of America.
External links
- "Kirkham biography". Soil Science Society of America.
- "Don and Betty Kirkham biographies". The University of Arizona, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
- Don Kirkham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Don and Betty Kirkham soil physics award and Kirkham conferences, Soil Science Society of America.
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Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Agriculture
- George F. Sprague / John C. Walker (1978)
- Jay Laurence Lush / Kenneth Blaxter (1979)
- Karl Maramorosch (1980)
- John O. Almquist / Henry A. Lardy / Glenn W. Salisbury (1981)
- Wendell L. Roelofs (1982)
- Don Kirkham / Cornellis T. de Witt (1983/4)
- Robert H. Burris (1984/5)
- Ralph Riley / Ernest R. Sears (1986)
- Theodor O. Diener (1987)
- Charles Thibault / Ernest John Christopher Polge (1988)
- Peter M. Biggs / Michael Elliott (1989)
- Jozef Stefaan Schell (1990)
- Shang Fa Yang (1991)
- John E. Casida (1993)
- Carl B. Huffaker / Perry Adkisson (1994/5)
- Morris Schnitzer / Frank J. Stevenson (1995/6)
- Neal L. First (1996/7)
- Ilan Chet / Baldur R. Stefansson (1998)
- Gurdev Khush (2000)
- Roger N. Beachy / James E. Womack (2001)
- R. Michael Roberts / Fuller W. Bazer (2002/3)
- Yuan Longping / Steven D. Tanksley (2004)
- Ronald L. Phillips / Michel A. J. Georges (2006/7)
- John A. Pickett / James H. Tumlinson / W. Joe Lewis (2008)
- David Baulcombe (2010)
- Harris Lewin / R. James Cook (2011)
- Joachim Messing / Jared Diamond (2013)
- Jorge Dubcovsky / Leif Andersson (2014)
- Linda Saif (2015)
- Trudy Mackay (2016)
- Gene E. Robinson (2018)
- David Zilberman (2019)
- Caroline Dean (2020)
- Pamela C. Ronald (2022)
- Martinus Theodore van Genuchten (2023)
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