Vasilii Robertovich Vil'yams

Japanese: ウィリヤムス（英語表記）Vasilii Robertovich Vil’yams

1863‐1939
A Soviet soil scientist. Born in Moscow, he graduated from the Petrovskaya Technical School. He studied under L. Pasteur in Paris and ME Wolny in Munich from 1889 to 1891, and after returning to Japan he served as professor and principal of the Moscow Agricultural Technical School and as a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He advocated the theory of a single soil formation process, which states that soil formation is a continuous and consistent process of soil development, and proposed and promoted a pasture rotation farming system to infinitely expand agricultural production. [Kikuo Kumazawa]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1863‐1939
ソ連の土壌学者。モスクワに生まれ，ペトロフスカヤ専門学校を卒業。1889‐91年にパリのL.パスツール，ミュンヘンのM.E.ウォルニーのもとで学び，帰国後モスクワ農業専門学校の教授から校長，ソ連科学アカデミー会員などを歴任した。土壌生成作用が連続的な一貫した土壌発展過程であるという単一土壌生成作用説をとなえ，農業生産を無限に発展させるための牧草輪作農耕体系を提唱し推進した。【熊沢喜久雄】

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