Peter Hague Nye

Peter Hague Nye FRS (16 September 1921 – 13 February 2009) was a British soil scientist.

Early life Peter Nye was born on 16 September 1921 in Hove, Sussex where his father, Haydn Percival Nye, was a chartered surveyor. John Nye, the glaciologist, was his younger brother. Their mother, Jessie Hague, was a daughter of Anderson Hague, the landscape painter,

Career After war work on delayed action detonators, Nye joined the British Colonial Service, and in 1947 was sent to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) as an Agricultural Officer.

Following a year at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Nye was a appointed Reader in Soil Science at the University of Oxford from 1961 to 1988, becoming a founding Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He was a visiting professor at Cornell University in 1974, 1981, and in 1989 when he was the Messenger Lecturer.

Books P.H. Nye and D.J. Greenland (1960) The soil under shifting cultivation. Farnham Royal: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux P.H. Nye and P.B. Tinker (1977) Solute movement in the soil–root system. Oxford: Blackwell. P.B. Tinker and P.H. Nye (2000) Solute movement in the rhizosphere. New York: Oxford University Press.