Marbut, Curtis (Fletcher) (1863–1935)

US soil scientist and geographer. After receiving his MA from Harvard University in 1894, he taught geology at the University of Missouri (1895–1913). As chief of the US Soil Survey (1913–33), he developed an international standard for studying soil, known as pedology. He translated The Great Soil Groups of the World and Their Development (1927) from the German and wrote the Soils of the United States (1935). Marbut was born in Lawrence County, Missouri.