20世纪美国土壤学家对中国土壤地理学的贡献

American Soil Scientists' Contributions to Chinese Pedology in the 20th Century

中美土壤学家之间有着长期的友好合作。对现代中国土壤地理学、乃至整个土壤学的建立和发展起过重要作用的美国土壤学家,按年代大致可以分成两组:第一组是20世纪早期(主要是30年代)的J.L.Buck,C.F.Shaw,R.L.Pendleton和J.A.Thorp;第二组是改革开放(1978年)以后的R.W.Arnold,H.Eswaran,L.P.Wilding和S.W.Buol。

American and Chinese soil scientists have a long and storied history of cooperation.The scope of this paper is to introduce a few key American pedologists whose influence shaped pedology in China.These pedologists can be divided into two groups by time periods.The first group arrived in the 1930＇s and were prominent until 1949 and included John L.Buck,Charles F.Shaw,Robert L.Pendleton,and James A.Thorp.The second group,namely,Richard W.Arnold,Hari Eswaran,Larry P.Wilding,and Stanley W.Buol,began collaborating with Chinese soil scientists after the Reform and Opening Policy of 1978.