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Marion L. Jackson

Marion LeRoy Jackson (1914–2002) was an American soil scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose work in soil chemistry and clay mineralogy shaped how soils and clays are analyzed worldwide.

Mark L. Brusseau

Mark L. Brusseau is an American environmental scientist and professor at the University of Arizona known for foundational work on nonequilibrium solute transport and PFAS retention and vadose-zone migration models.

Merril Eisenbud

Merril Eisenbud (1915–1997) was an American environmental health scientist, founding director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Health and Safety Laboratory, author of Environmental Radioactivity, and New York City's first Environmental Protection Administrator.

Michael F. Hochella

Michael F. Hochella, also known as M. F. Hochella, is an American Earth scientist who helped establish nanogeoscience and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.

Neil C. Sturchio

Neil C. Sturchio is an American geochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware whose research applies isotope tracers to hydrology and synchrotron X-ray methods to mineral–water interfaces.

Philip M. Jardine

Philip M. Jardine (died 2014) was an American soil scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who won a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award and pioneered field-scale bioremediation of uranium-contaminated groundwater.

Rob N.J. Comans

Rob N.J. Comans is a soil chemist and geochemist who is full professor and chair of the Soil Chemistry group at Wageningen University & Research.

Satish C. B. Myneni

Satish C. B. Myneni is an environmental geochemist and professor of geosciences at Princeton University, known for discovering naturally formed chlorinated hydrocarbons in decaying plant material.

Scott A. Mabury

Scott A. Mabury, also published as Scott Mabury, is a Canadian environmental chemist at the University of Toronto known for tracing fluorinated "forever chemicals" in the Canadian Arctic.

Scott Fendorf

Scott Fendorf is an environmental chemist and Terry Huffington Professor at Stanford University whose fieldwork in South and Southeast Asia explained how arsenic enters groundwater.

Susan L. Brantley

Susan L. Brantley, also published as Susan Brantley, is an American aqueous geochemist who spent nearly 40 years at Penn State studying chemical weathering and the critical zone.

Thomas A. Ternes

Thomas A. Ternes, also published as Thomas Ternes, is a German environmental chemist and Head of Research at the Federal Institute of Hydrology in Koblenz, known for work on pharmaceuticals in water.

Vasily Dokuchaev

Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev (1846–1903) was a Russian geologist who founded modern soil science, defining soil as an independent natural body and showing that soils occur in climate-matched zones.

W. P. Kelley

W. P. Kelley (Walter Pearson Kelley) was an American soil chemist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1943, known for work on alkali soils and ion exchange.

Walter Giger

Walter Giger (1943–2025) was a Swiss environmental chemist at Eawag and ETH Zurich whose 1984 finding that detergent surfactants degrade into toxic nonylphenols led to a 1986 Swiss detergent ban.

Werner Stumm

Werner Stumm (1924–1999) was a Swiss aquatic chemist who coined "aquatic chemistry", directed EAWAG from 1970 to 1992, taught at Harvard and ETH Zurich, and won the Stockholm Water Prize.

William Davison (environmental geochemist)

William Davison is an environmental geochemist and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Lancaster University, known for developing the DGT and DET in-situ measurement techniques in 1994.

Young‐Shin Jun

Young-Shin Jun is an environmental engineer and professor at Washington University in St. Louis who directs the Environmental NanoChemistry Laboratory, studying nanoscale chemistry for CO2 sequestration and water treatment.