Homer Jay Wheeler (September 2, 1861 – November 18, 1945) was an American agricultural chemist and college administrator.

degree in 1883, after which he worked for four years as assistant to the Dr. Goessmann, the director of the newly established Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station.

In 1887 with his colleague John Hosea Washburn traveled to Germany for graduate studies at University of Göttingen.

[3] Not long after Wheeler's arrival at the agricultural experiment station, he was offered the directorship, and the position of professor of geology and agrononmy at Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later to become Rhode Island State College), concurrent with his experiment station work from 1894 to 1912.

During World War I he served as chairman of the Committee on Soils and Fertilizers of the National Research Council.