Peter Nye
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Peter Hague Nye FRS (16 September 1921 – 13 February 2009) was a British soil scientist.
He was educated at Charterhouse School, Balliol College, Oxford and Christ's College, Cambridge.[1]
He was a Lecturer in Soil Science at the University College of Ibadan, Nigeria from 1950 to 1952, and then a Senion Lecturer in Soil Science at the University of Ghana from 1952 to 1960. He was a Reader in Soil Science at the University of Oxford from 1961 to 1988 where he was a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He was Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987.[2] He delivered a Messenger Lecture at Cornell University in 1989.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Nye, Peter Hague, (16 Sept. 1921–13 Feb. 2009), Reader in Soil Science, University of Oxford, 1961–88; Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, 1966–88 (Senior Fellow, 1982–83), then Emeritus Fellow." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Apr. 2018
- ^ "Prof. Peter Nye FRS". British Society of Soil Science. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "University and Messenger Lectures (1960-Present)". Cornell University. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
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