Peter Hague Nye. 16 September 1921 — 13 February 2009

Abstract

Peter Nye was at the forefront of research in plant and soil sciences for over 40 years. He began his career in West Africa in the 1950s, where he did seminal work on the soils under shifting cultivation systems of agriculture. He spent the rest of his career in Oxford, where he pioneered research on the complexities of the plant root–soil interface and mathematical modelling of plant and soil processes.