This is a list of
botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
s who have Wikipedia
articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The
List of botanists by author abbreviation
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* Aa – Hubertus Antonius van der Aa (1935–2017)
* A.A.Burb. – Andrew A. Burbidge (floruit, fl. 2016)
* A.A.Cocucci – (born 1959)
* A.A.Eaton – Alvah Augustus Eaton (1865–1908)
* A.A.Fisch.Waldh. – Alexandr Alexandro ...
is mostly a list of
plant taxonomists because an author receives a
standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new
plant name.
Botany is one of the few sciences which has had, since the Middle Ages, substantial participation by women.
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Erik Acharius
Erik Acharius (10 October 1757 – 14 August 1819) was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology". Acharius was famously the last pupil of Carl Linnaeus.
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Julián Acuña Galé (1900–1973)
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Johann Friedrich Adam (1780–1838)
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Carl Adolph Agardh (1785–1859)
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Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901)
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Nikolaus Ager (1568–1634)
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William Aiton
William Aiton (17312 February 1793) was a Scotland, Scottish botanist.
Aiton was born near Hamilton, Scotland, Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Phi ...
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Frédéric-Louis Allamand (1736–1809)
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Ruth F. Allen (1879–1963)
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Carlo Allioni (1728–1804)
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Lucile Allorge (b. 1937)
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Prospero Alpini
Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 15536 February 1617) was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of ...
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Benjamin Alvord (1813–1884)
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Adeline Ames (1879–1976)
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Janaki Ammal (1897–1984)
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Eliza Frances Andrews
Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, 1840 - January 21, 1931) was a popular American writer of the Gilded Age. Her shorter works were published in popular magazines and papers, including the ''New York World'' and ''Godey's Lady's Book''. Her longer ...
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Agnes Arber
Agnes Arber Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS ( Robertson; 23 February 1879 – 22 March 1960) was a British people, British plant morphology, plant morphologist and plant anatomy, anatomist, History of botany, historian of botany and philosophe ...
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Giovanni Arcangeli
Giovanni Arcangeli (18 July 1840 – 16 July 1921) was an Italian botanist from Florence.
In 1862 he earned his degree in natural sciences from the University of Pisa, where he later became an instructor and professor. In 1880 he was a professo ...
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David Ashton (1927–2005)
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William Guybon Atherstone
William Guybon Atherstone (; 1814–1898) was a medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, one of the pioneers of South African geology and a member of the Cape Parliament.
Life
He arrived in South Africa with his parents as 1820 Sett ...
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Anna Atkins
Anna Atkins (; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a ...
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Daniel E. Atha (b. 1962)
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Armen Takhtajan
Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian (; surname also transliterated Takhtadjan, Takhtadzhi︠a︡n or Takhtadzhian, pronounced takh-tuh-JAHN; 10 June 1910 – 13 November 2009), was a Soviet- Armenian botanist, one of the most important fi ...
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Ernest Brown Babcock (1877–1954)
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Churchill Babington
Churchill Babington (; 11 March 182112 January 1889) was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist. He served as Rector of Cockfield, Suffolk. He was a cousin of Cardale Babington.
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Curt Backeberg
Curt Backeberg (2 August 1894 in Lüneburg, Germany – 14 January 1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti.
Biography
He travelled extensively through Central and South America, and pu ...
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James Eustace Bagnall (1830–1918)
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Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857)
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Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954)
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Ibn al-Baitar (1197–1248)
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Giovanni Battista Balbis (1765–1831)
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John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884)
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Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English Natural history, naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Banks made his name on the European and American voyages of scientific exploration, 1766 natural-history ...
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César Barbosa (b. 1954)
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Bryan Alwyn Barlow (b. 1933)
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Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798–1875)
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Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815)
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John Bartram (1699–1777)
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William Bartram (1739–1823)
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Johann Bauhin (1541–1613)
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Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Switzerland, Swiss botanist whose ''Pinax theatri botanici'' (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later ...
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Chauncey Beadle (1866–1950)
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William James Beal (1833–1924)
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Janice C. Beatley (1919–1987)
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Rolla Kent Beattie (1875–1960)
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Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757–1822)
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Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911)
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Martinus Beijerinck (1851–1931)
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David Bellamy (1933–2019)
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Pierre Belon (1517–1564)
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George Bentham
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ...
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Robert Bentley (1821–1893)
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Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889)
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Karl August von Bergen (1704–1759)
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Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774–1850)
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Edward W. Berry (1875–1945)
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Antonio Bertoloni (1775–1869)
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Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784–1842)
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Clarence Bicknell (1842–1918)
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Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein
Baron Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (30 July 1768 – 28 June 1826) was an early explorer of the flora and archeology of the southern portion of Imperial Russia, including the Caucasus and Novorossiya. He compiled the first comprehen ...
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Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879)
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John Milton Bigelow (1804–1878)
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Gustaf Johan Billberg (1772–1844)
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Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (1797–1854)
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Johannes Bisse (1935–1984)
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Francisco Manuel Blanco (1779–1845)
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John Bradby Blake (1745–1773)
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William Faris Blakely (1875–1941)
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Andrew Bloxam
Andrew Bloxam (22 September 1801 – 2 February 1878) was an English clergyman and naturalist; in his later life he had a particular interest in botany. He was the naturalist on board during its voyage around South America and the Pacific in 18 ...
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Carl Ludwig Blume
Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796 – 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist and entomologist who spent most of his professional life in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. As deputy director of agricul ...
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Tyge W. Böcher (1909–1983)
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Jane Haskett Bock
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Hieronymus Bock (1498–1554)
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Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738)
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Wenceslas Bojer (1795–1856)
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Henry Nicholas Bolander (1831–1897)
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Harry Bolus (1834–1911)
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August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786–1839)
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Charles Bonnet (1720–1793)
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Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858)
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Francis Boott (1792–1863)
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Evelyn Booth (1897–1988)
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Attila Borhidi (b. 1932)
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Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903–1970)
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Frederik Børgesen (1866–1956)
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David Bowman (1838–1868)
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Richard Bradley (1688–1732)
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Alexander Braun
Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun (10 May 1805 – 29 March 1877) was a German botanist from Regensburg, Bavaria. His research centered on the morphology of plants and was a very influential teacher who worked as a professor of botany at the univers ...
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John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985)
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William Henry Brewer (1828–1910)
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Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri (1761–1828)
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Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (27 March 1776 – 12 September 1854) was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cell biology, cytology.
A native Parisian, at the age of twenty, he became an assistant- ...
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Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (née Knight) (January 9, 1858 – February 25, 1934) was an American botanist, bryologist, and educator. She and her husband, Nathaniel Lord Britton, played a significant role in the fundraising and creation of the New ...
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Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859 – 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York (state), New York.
Early life
Britton was born on the 15 of January 1859 at New Dorp, Staten Island ...
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Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1772–1826)
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Adolphe Theodore Brongniart (1801–1876)
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Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934)
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Patrick Browne (1720–1790)
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Jeremy James Bruhl (b. 1956)
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Louis-Ovide Brunet (1826–1876)
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Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Francis Buchanan (15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829), later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish surgeon, surveyor and botanist who made significant contributions as a geographer and zoolo ...
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Alexander von Bunge (1803–1890)
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Elsa Beata Bunge (1734–1819)
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Luther Burbank (1849–1926)
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Frederick William Burbidge (1847–1905)
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William John Burchell (1781–1863)
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Alan Burges (1911–2002)
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David Burke (1854–1897)
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Joseph Burke II (1812–1873)
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Johannes Burman (1707–1780)
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Nicolaas Laurens Burman
Nicolaas Laurens Burman (27 December 1734 – 11 September 1793) was a Dutch botanist.
He was the son of Johannes Burman (1707–1780). He succeeded his father to the chair of botany at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam., and at the Hortus Bot ...
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Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Busch (1886–1960)
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Maarten Buysman (1856–1919)
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Cleofé Caldéron (1929–2007)
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Albert Callay (1822–1896)
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George Caley (1770–1829)
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Ella Orr Campbell (1910–2003)
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Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721)
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Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879–1965)
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Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss people, Swiss botany, botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple ...
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Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (A. de Candolle) (1806–1893)
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Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle (Aug. de Candolle) (1868–1920)
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J. F. M. Cannon (1930–2008)
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Sherwin Carlquist (1930–2021)
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Cedric Errol Carr (1892–1936)
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Elie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896)
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George Washington Carver (1864–1943)
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Henri Cassini (1781–1832)
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William Casson (1796–1886)
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Antonio José Cavanilles (1745–1804)
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Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603)
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Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838)
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Daniel Chamovitz (b. 1963)
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Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763–1794)
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Wan Chun Cheng (1908–1987)
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Henry Chesterton (1837–1883)
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Carl Christensen (1872–1942)
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Joseph Philippe de Clairville (1742–1830)
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Arthur Roy Clapham (1904–1990)
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Lynn G. Clark (b. 1956)
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Adrienne Clarke (b. 1938)
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Gertrude Clarke Nuttall (1867–1929)
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Jens Clausen (1891–1969)
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Jane Colden (1724–1766)
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Runar Collander (1894–1973)
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Peter Collinson (1694–1768)
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Charles Coltman-Rogers (1854–1929)
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Philibert Commerçon
Philibert Commerson (; 18 November 1727 – 14 March 1773), sometimes spelled Commerçon by contemporaries, was a French natural history, naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1 ...
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Joseph Whipple Congdon (1834–1910)
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Valerius Cordus (1515–1544)
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Giacomo Antonio Cortuso (1513–1603)
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Arthur Disbrowe Cotton (1879–1962)
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Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (1722–1799)
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Arthur Cronquist (1919–1992)
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José Cuatrecasas (1903–1996)
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Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654)
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Francesco Cupani
Francesco Cupani ( 21 January 1657, Mirto, Sicily, Mirto – 19 January 1710, Palermo )
was an Italians, Italian naturalist mainly interested in botany.
In 1692 he became the first Director of the botanic garden at Misilmeri. Here the plants w ...
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Ed Currie (b. 1963)
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Charles Curtis (1853–1928)
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William Curtis (1746–1799)
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Pierre Cusson (1727–1783)
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Anders Dahl (1751–1789)
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Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard (1663–1743)
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John M. Darby (1804–1877)
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Frederick Hamilton Davey (1868–1915)
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Armand David (1826–1900)
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Walter Davis (1847–1930)
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Anton de Bary (1831–1888)
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Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882)
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Ethel de Fraine (1879–1918)
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Pierre Jean Marie Delavay (1834–1895)
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Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847)
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Stefano delle Chiaje (1794–1860)
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Giuseppe De Notaris (1805–1877)
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René Louiche Desfontaines
René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist.
Desfontaines was born near Tremblay, Ille-et-Vilaine, Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medici ...
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Narcisse Henri François Desportes (1776–1856)
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Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux (1753–1838)
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Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784–1856)
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Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747)
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Kurt Dinter (1868–1945)
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Pedanius Dioscorides ( 40–90)
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Kingsley Dixon (b. 1954)
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Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585)
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David Don (1799–1841)
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George Don (1798–1856)
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James Donn (1758–1813)
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Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717–1795)
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David Douglas (1799–1834)
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John Dransfield (b. 1945)
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Robert Louis Dressler (1927–2019)
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Jonas C. Dryander (1748–1810)
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Heber Drury (1819–1905)
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Jean Étienne Duby
Jean Étienne Duby (15 February 1798 in Geneva – 24 November 1885) was a Swiss clergyman and botanist.
He studied theology in Geneva, obtaining his consecration in 1820, and having an avid interest in natural history, he earned his degree in ...
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Antoine Nicolas Duchesne
Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (born 7 October 1747 Versailles (city), Versailles; died 18 February 1827 Paris) was a French botanist known for his keen observation of variation within species, and for demonstrating that species are not immutable, becaus ...
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William Russell Dudley (1849–1911)
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Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797–1878)
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Michel Felix Dunal (1789–1856)
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Ursula Katherine Duncan (1910–1985)
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Stephen Troyte Dunn (1868–1938)
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Robert Allen Dyer (1900–1987)
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Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812–1881)
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Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers (1844–1903)
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous an ...
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Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart
Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (4 November 1742, Holderbank, Aargau – 26 June 1795) was a German botanist, a pupil of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical ...
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Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786)
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Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849)
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George Engelmann
George Engelmann, also known as Georg Engelmann, (2 February 1809 – 4 February 1884) was a German-American botanist. He was instrumental in describing the flora (plants), flora of the west of North America, then very poorly known to Europeans; ...
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Adolf Engler
Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (''The Natural Plant Families''), edited with K ...
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Andrey Erst
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Katherine Esau (1898–1997)
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Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831)
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Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897)
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Eleonora Gabrielian (b. 1929)
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David Fairchild (1869–1954)
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Hugh Falconer (1808–1865)
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Reginald Farrer (1880–1920)
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Lewis J. Feldman (b. 1945)
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Luigi Fenaroli (1899–1980)
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Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873–1950)
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Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782–1854)
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Heinrich Gustav Flörke (1764–1835)
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Pius Font i Quer (1888–1964)
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Peter Forsskål (1732–1763)
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Georg Forster
Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (; 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German geography, geographer, natural history, naturalist, ethnology, ethnologist, travel literature, travel writer, journalist and revol ...
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Johann Reinhold Forster
Johann Reinhold Forster (; 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist. Born in Tczew, Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship (1466–1772), Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now Tczew, Po ...
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Robert Fortune (1812–1880)
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Henry Georges Fourcade (1865–1948)
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Adrien René Franchet (1834–1900)
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William Douglas Francis (1889–1959)
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John C. Frémont (1813–1890)
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Elias Magnus Fries
Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the Mycology, "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and li ...
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Imre Frivaldszky (1799–1870)
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Charles Christopher Frost (1805–1880)
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Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566)
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Heinrich Christian Funck (1771–1839)
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Catherine Furbish (1834–1931)
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Eleonora Gabrielian (b. 1929)
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Joseph Gaertner
Joseph Gaertner (12 March 1732 – 14 July 1791) was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, ''De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum'' (1788-1792).
Biography
He was born in Calw, and studied in Göttingen under Albrecht von Haller. H ...
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Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772–1850)
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Betsy Harrison Gagne (1947–2020)
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François Gagnepain (1866–1952)
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Ernest Edward Galpin (1858–1941)
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George Alexander Gammie (1864–1934)
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James Alexander Gammie (1839–1924)
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Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789–1854)
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Alwyn Howard Gentry (1945–1993)
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Howard Scott Gentry (1903–1993)
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John Gerard (1545–1612)
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Conrad von Gesner (1516–1565)
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Luca Ghini (1490–1556)
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Ken Gillanders (b. 1930)
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Charles Henry Gimingham (1923–2018)
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German natural history, naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
Education
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp F ...
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Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755)
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Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744–1774)
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Hossein Gol-e-Golab (1895–1985)
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George Gordon (1806–1879)
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Antoine Gouan (1733–1821)
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Asa Gray
Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botany, botanist of the 19th century. His ''Darwiniana'' (1876) was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessaril ...
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Netta Elizabeth Gray (1913–1970)
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Robert Kaye Greville
Dr. Robert Kaye Greville FRSE FLS LLD (13 December 1794 – 4 June 1866) was an England, English mycologist, bryology, bryologist, and botanist. He was an accomplished artist and illustrator of natural history. In addition to art and scien ...
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Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712)
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William Griffith (1810–1845)
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Jan Frederik Gronovius (1690–1762)
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Wilhelm Gueinzius (1813–1874)
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Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901–1997)
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Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773)
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Giovanni Gussone (1787–1866)
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Francis Guthrie (1831–1899)
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Guranda Gvaladze (1932–2020)
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Ingebrigt Severin Hagen
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Olaf Hagerup
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Hiroshi Hara
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Thora Hardy
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Inez M. Haring
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Robert Almer Harper
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Cornelia Hermina van Harreveld-Lako
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Karl Theodor Hartweg
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William Henry Harvey
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Adrian Hardy Haworth
Adrian Hardy Haworth (19 April 1767, in Kingston upon Hull, Hull – 24 August 1833, in Chelsea, London, Chelsea) was an England, English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.
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The younger son of Benjamin Haworth, of Haworth Hall and ...
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John Stevens Henslow
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Augustine Henry
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Vernon Heywood
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Mary MacLean Hindmarsh
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Adriana Hoffmann
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Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg
Johann Centurius Hoffmann Graf von Hoffmannsegg (23 August 1766 – 13 December 1849) was a German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist.
Hoffmannsegg was born at Rammenau and studied at Leipzig and Göttingen. He travelled through Europe a ...
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Henri Homblé
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Henrietta Hooker
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Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For 20 years he served as director of the Ro ...
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William Jackson Hooker
Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botany, botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew Gardens, Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botan ...
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Josiah Hoopes
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Albert Howard
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Gabrielle Howard
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Armando Theodoro Hunziker
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John Hutchinson
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Agnes Ibbetson (1757–1823)
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Jane Ingham (1897–1982)
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Keisuke Ito (1803–1901)
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Vello Jaaska (b. 1936)
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Vilve Jaaska (fl. 1990)
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Victor Jacquemont (1801–1832)
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Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin (16 February 172726 October 1817) was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.
Biography
Born in Leiden in the Netherlands, he studied medicine at Leiden University, then moved first to Par ...
(1727–1817)
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Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766–1839)
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Shri Mohan Jain (b. 1949)
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Knud Jessen (1884–1971)
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Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927)
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Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic botany, botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional car ...
(1925–1997)
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Ivan Murray Johnston
I. M. (Ivan Murray) Johnston (February 28, 1898 – May 31, 1960) was a United States botanist. He studied at Pomona College in Claremont, California and at Harvard University. His plant collections are housed in the '' Rancho Santa Ana Botan ...
(1898–1960)
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Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853)
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836)
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Antoine de Jussieu (1686–1758)
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Bernard de Jussieu (1699–1777)
K
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Kaibara Ekiken (1630–1714)
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Guillermo Kalbreyer (1847–1912)
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Pehr Kalm (1716–1779)
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Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist.
Biography
Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the norther ...
(1817–1908)
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Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983)
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Sir Frederick Keeble (1870–1952)
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Albert Kellogg (1813–1887)
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George Clayton Kennedy (1919–1980)
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Alice L. Kibbe (1881–1969)
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Franz Kiggelaer
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Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar (1849–1917)
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Masao Kitagawa (1910–1995)
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Karl Koch (1809–1879)
L
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Jacques Labillardière
Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (28 October 1755 – 8 January 1834) was a French biologist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the Jean-François de Galaup, comte ...
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Dorothy van Dyke Leake
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Lars Levi Laestadius
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biologi ...
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Aylmer Bourke Lambert
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Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux
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Gerhard Lang (1924–2016)
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Kai Larsen
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Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac
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Charles de l'Écluse
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Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour
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Emmanuel Liais
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John Lindley
John Lindley Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidology, orchidologist.
Early years
Born in Old Catton, Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four c ...
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Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (2 February 1767 – 1 January 1851) was a German natural history, naturalist and botanist.
Biography
Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link (1738–1783), who taught him love ...
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Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
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Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné den yngre (Swedish language, Swedish; abbreviated Carl von Linné d. y.), or ''Linnaeus filius'' (Latin for ''Linnaeus the son''; abbreviated L.fil. (outdated) or L.f. (mo ...
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William Richardson Linton
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Pablo de la Llave
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David Lloyd
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Thomas Lobb
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William Lobb
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George Loddiges
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Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps
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Harri Lorenzi
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A.S. Losina-Losinskaja
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John Claudius Loudon
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Alice Lounsberry
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Elias Lönnrot
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Hedvig Lovén
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Hans Christian Lyngbye
M
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Elizabeth McClintock
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William McCalla
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John Macoun
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Peter MacOwan
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Elke Mackenzie
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Aime Mäemets
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Pierre Magnol
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Joseph Maiden
Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...
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Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 30 November 1694) was an Italians, Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is borne by ...
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Gustav Mann
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Charles Maries
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Jesse Jarue Mark
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Rudolf Marloth
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Humphry Marshall
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Austin Mast
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Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botany, botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His m ...
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John M. MacDougal
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Terry Desmond Macfarlane
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William Keble Martin
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John Martyn
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Genkei Masamune
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Francis Masson
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Carl Maximowicz
Carl Johann Maximovich, also Karl Ivanovich Maximovich (Russian language, Russian: Карл Иванович Максимович; 23 November 1827 – 16 February 1891) was a Russian botanist. Maximovich spent most of his life studying the flor ...
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Rogers McVaugh
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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel Order of Saint Augustine, OSA (; ; ; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinians, Augustinian friar and abbot of St Thomas's Abbey, Brno, St. Thom ...
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Friedrich Kasimir Medikus
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Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini
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Archibald Menzies
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Konstantin Merezhkovsky
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Franz Meyen
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Carl Anton von Meyer
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André Michaux
André Michaux (' → ahn- mee-; sometimes Anglicisation, anglicised as Andrew Michaud; 8 March 174611 October 1802) was a French botanist and explorer. He is most noted for his study of North American flora. In addition Michaux collected specime ...
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Pier Antonio Micheli
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John Miller
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Philip Miller
Philip Miller Royal Society, FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botany, botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular ...
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Charles Frederick Millspaugh
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Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
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Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (27 March 1776 – 12 September 1854) was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cell biology, cytology.
A native Parisian, at the age of twenty, he became an assistant- ...
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John Mitchell
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Conrad Moench
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Hugo von Mohl
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Charles Theodore Mohr
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Paul Möhring
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Camille Montagne
Jean Pierre François Camille Montagne (15 February 1784 – 5 December 1866) was a French people, French military physician and botanist who specialized in the fields of bryology and mycology.
Life
Montague was born in the commune of Vaudoy i ...
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George Thomas Moore
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Giuseppe Moretti
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Giuseppe Giacinto Moris
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Robert Morison
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Józef Motyka
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Cornelius Herman Muller
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Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia ...
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Otto von Münchhausen
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Karl Wilhelm von Nageli (1817–1891)
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P. K. K. Nair (1930–2017)
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George Valentine Nash (1864–1921)
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Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific Germany, German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Carl Li ...
(1776–1858)
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Charles F. Newcombe (1851–1924)
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Frank Newhook (1918–1999)
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Margaret Newton (1887–1971)
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Louis Nicolas (1634–1682?)
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Daniel Lee Nickrent (b. 1956)
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Emilia Frances Noel (1868–1950)
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Thomas Nuttall (1786–1859)
O
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Carl Hansen Ostenfeld (1873–1931)
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Daniel Oliver (1830–1916)
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Garcia de Orta (1501–1568)
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Giuseppe Olivi (1769–1795)
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William Oakes (botanist) (1799–1848)
P
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Alf Erling Porsild
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Carl Borivoj Presl
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Charles Christopher Parry
image:Charles Christopher Parry.jpg, Parry circa 1875
Charles Christopher Parry (August 28, 1823 – February 20, 1890) was a British-American botanist and Mountaineering, mountaineer.
Biography
Parry was born in Gloucestershire, England, but mo ...
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Charles Plumier
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Christian Hendrik Persoon
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (31 December 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a Cape Colony mycologist who is recognized as one of the founders of mycology, mycological Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy.
Early life
Persoon was born in Cape Colony at ...
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Cyrus Pringle
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Daniel Oliver
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Donald C. Peattie
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Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
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Eduard Pospichal
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Edward Palmer
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Filippo Parlatore
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Flora Wambaugh Patterson
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Frederick Traugott Pursh
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George E. Post
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George R. Proctor
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Ghillean Prance
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Henri François Pittier
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Henri Perrier de la Bâthie
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Herman Silas Pepoon
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Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans
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Isaac-Bénédict Prévost
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James Petiver
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Jan Svatopluk Presl
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Jean Louis Marie Poiret
Jean Louis Marie Poiret (11 June 1755 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, Saint-Quentin7 April 1834 in Paris) was a French clergyman, Botany, botanist, and Exploration, explorer.
From 1785 to 1786, he was sent by Louis XVI of France, Louis XVI to Algeri ...
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Jean-Marie Pelt
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Joel Roberts Poinsett
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Josif Pancic
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Joseph Hubert Priestley
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Karl Julius Perleb
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Leonard Plukenet
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Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré
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Ludwig Preiss
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Michael Proctor
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Morten Pedersen Porsild
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Nathanael Pringsheim
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Ove Paulsen
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Palisot de Beauvois
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Paul Petard
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Paul Émile de Puydt
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Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussia, Prussian zoologist, botanist, Ethnography, ethnographer, Exploration, explorer, Geography, geographer, Geology, geologist, Natura ...
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder ( ), was a Roman Empire, Roman author, Natural history, naturalist, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the Roman emperor, emperor Vesp ...
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Richard Pearce
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Rodolfo Amando Philippi
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Ruth Patrick
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Thomas Conrad Porter
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William Hunt Painter
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William Paterson
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William Purdom
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Ciro Pollini
Q
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Agnes J. Quirk (1884–1974)
R
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Achille Richard
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Albert Ernest Radford
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Albrecht Wilhelm Roth
Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (6 January 1757 – 16 October 1834) was a physician and botanist born in Dötlingen, Germany.
He studied medicine at the Universities of University of Halle, Halle and University of Erlangen, Erlangen, where he received his ...
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Antoine Risso (alias: Antonio Giuseppe Risso)
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Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
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Christen C. Raunkiær
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; 22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ult ...
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Elizabeth Seymour Rawlinson
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Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns
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Gabriele Rabel
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Georg Eberhard Rumphius
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Gustaf Otto Rosenberg
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Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen
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Harold E. Robinson
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Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889) was a botanist and the foremost Germany, German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Ludwig Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of ''Ico ...
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Henry Nicholas Ridley
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Johann Jacob Roemer
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John Ralfs
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John Ray
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Joseph Rock
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José Manuel Restrepo Vélez
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Joseph Rock
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Julien Reverchon
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Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge
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Lincoln Ware Riddle
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Louis Claude Richard
Louis Claude Marie Richard (19 September 1754 – 6 June 1821) was a French botanist and botanical illustration, botanical illustrator.
Biography
Richard was born at Versailles (city), Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical s ...
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Ludwig Reichenbach
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Oliver Rackham
Oliver Rackham (17 October 1939 – 12 February 2015) was an academic at the University of Cambridge who studied the ecology, management and development of the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture. His books inc ...
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Per Axel Rydberg
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Peter H. Raven
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Thekla Resvoll
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Tony Rodd
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Werner Rothmaler
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William Roxburgh
William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE Linnean Society of London, FLS (3/29 June 1751 – 18 February 1815) was a Scottish people, Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known ...
S
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Joseph Sabine
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Julius von Sachs
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József Sadler
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Thiodolf Saelan
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Augustin Saint-Hilaire
Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire (4 October 17793 September 1853) was a French botanist and traveller who was born and died in Orléans, France. A keen observer, he is credited with important discoveries in botany, notably th ...
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Edward James Salisbury
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Richard Anthony Salisbury
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Richard Sanders Rogers
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Gaetano Savi
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Charles Sprague Sargent
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Henry Parker Sartwell
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William Saunders
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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
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Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
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Christian Schkuhr
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Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle an der Saale, Halle) was a German botanist.
Life and work
Von Schlechtendal was born in Xanten, Xanten am Rhein and when his father Diederich Fried ...
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Rudolf Schlechter
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden
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George Schoener
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Selmar Schonland
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Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (7 January 1794 – 5 March 1865) was an Austrian botanist. He is known for his extensive work on aroids ( Araceae).
Biography
Schott was born on 7 January 1794 in Brno, Moravia. He studied botany, agriculture and chemi ...
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Heinrich Schrader
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Franz von Paula Schrank
Franz von Paula Schrank (21 August 1747, in Neuhaus am Inn, Vornbach – 22 December 1835) was a German priest, botanist and entomologist.
Biography
He was ordained as a priest in Vienna in 1784, gaining his doctorate in theology two years lat ...
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Josef August Schultes
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Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen
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Ian Schwartz
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Georg August Schweinfurth
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italians, Italian physician and natural history, naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first ...
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Berthold Carl Seemann
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Prideaux John Selby
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Jean Senebier
Jean Senebier (25 May 1742 – 22 July 1809) was a Republic and Canton of Geneva#History, Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist. He was chief librarian of the Republic of Geneva. A pioneer in the field of photosynthesis research, he provided ...
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Nicolas Charles Seringe
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Martín Sessé y Lacasta
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John Adolph Shafer
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Carl Sharsmith
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Helen Sharsmith
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George Shaw
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Shen Kuo
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John Sibthorp
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Franz Sieber
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Philipp Franz von Siebold
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (17 February 1796 – 18 October 1866) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora (plants), flora and fauna (animals), fauna and the introduction of ...
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Thomas Robertson Sim
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Cuthbert John Skead
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John Kunkel Small
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Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov
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Christo Albertyn Smith
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Edith Philip Smith
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James Edward Smith
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Johannes Jacobus Smith
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Winifred Smith
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Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth
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Daniel Solander
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Otto Wilhelm Sonder
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Pierre Sonnerat
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Effie A. Southworth
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Roger David Spencer
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Herman Spoering
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Kurt Sprengel
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Richard Spruce
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Herman Spöring
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Clive Stace
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Agustín Stahl
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Elvin C. Stakman
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Paul Carpenter Standley
Paul Carpenter Standley (March 21, 1884 – June 2, 1963) was an American botanist known for his work on neotropical plants.
Biography
Standley was born on March 21, 1884, in Avalon, Missouri. He attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, ...
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G. Ledyard Stebbins
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Berthold Stein
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Georg Wilhelm Steller
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Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
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Julian Alfred Steyermark
Julian Alfred Steyermark (January 27, 1909 – October 15, 1988) was a Venezuelan American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.
Life and work
Julian Alfred Steyermark was born in St. Loui ...
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Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes (c. 1755 – 30 April 1831) was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis.
Life and work
Stokes was probably born in Chesterfield, Derb ...
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Eduard Strasburger
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George Bishop Sudworth
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Su Song
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Olof Swartz
Olof Peter Swartz (21 September 1760 – 19 September 1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes, but also studied orchids, mosses and lichens.
Biography
Olof Swartz a ...
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Simon Syrenius
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Hisayoshi Takeda (
aka Takeda Hisayoshi)
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Armen Takhtajan
Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian (; surname also transliterated Takhtadjan, Takhtadzhi︠a︡n or Takhtadzhian, pronounced takh-tuh-JAHN; 10 June 1910 – 13 November 2009), was a Soviet- Armenian botanist, one of the most important fi ...
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Arthur Tansley
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Ignaz Friedrich Tausch
Ignaz Friedrich Tausch (29 January 1793, in Theusing – 8 September 1848) was a Bohemian botanist.
He studied philosophy, medicine and natural sciences at the University of Prague, becoming an associate professor of economic and technical bota ...
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John Templeton
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Michele Tenore
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Theophrastus
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William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
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Graham Stuart Thomas
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William Thompson
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George Thomson
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Robert Folger Thorne
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Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars
Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (5 November 1758, Saint-Martin-de-la-Place, Bournois – 12 May 1831, Paris) was a French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and R ...
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Carl Peter Thunberg
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Agostino Todaro
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John Torrey
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 165628 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.
Li ...
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John Tradescant the elder
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John Tradescant the younger
John Tradescant the Younger (; 4 August 1608 – 22 April 1662), son of John Tradescant the Elder, was a botanist and gardener. The standard List of botanists by author abbreviation, author abbreviation Trad. is applied to species he describe ...
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Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter
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Carl Bernhard von Trinius
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Mikhail Tsvet
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Edward Tuckerman
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William Turner
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Tom Tutin
U
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Bernardino da Ucria (1739–1796)
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Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853–1907)
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Ignatz Urban (1848–1931)
V
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Martin Vahl
Martin Henrichsen Vahl (10 October 1749 – 24 December 1804) was a Denmark-Norway, Danish-Norwegian botanist, herbalist and zoologist.
Biography
Martin Vahl was born in Bergen, Norway and attended Bergen Cathedral School. He studied botany at ...
(1749–1804)
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Sébastien Vaillant (1669–1722)
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David H. Valentine (1912–1987)
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Ina Vandebroek
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Domenico Vandelli (1735–1816)
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Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh (b. 1952)
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Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943)
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Harry Veitch (1840–1924)
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John Gould Veitch (1839–1870)
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Peter Veitch (1850–1929)
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Romina Vidal-Russell
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Dominique Villars (1745–1814)
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Domenico Viviani (1772–1840)
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Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin (1838–1903)
W
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Warren H. Wagner
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Göran Wahlenberg
Georg (Göran) Wahlenberg (1 October 1780 – 22 March 1851) was a Swedish naturalist. He was born in Kroppa, Värmland County.
Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appoi ...
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Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein
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George Arnott Walker-Arnott
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Nathaniel Wallich
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Gustav Wallis
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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth
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E. F. Warburg
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Harry Marshall Ward
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Eugenius Warming
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Sereno Watson
Sereno Watson (December 1, 1826 – March 9, 1892) was an American botanist.
Life
Watson was born on December 1, 1826, in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut.
Graduating from Yale in 1847 in biology, he drifted through various occupations unt ...
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William Watson
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Wang Wencai
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Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
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Randy Wayne (biologist)
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Philip Barker Webb
Philip Barker Webb (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist.
Life
Webb was born to a wealthy, aristocratic family; his father was the lord of the manors of Witley and Milford, Surrey, Milford, in Surrey, England. Webb was ...
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Georg Heinrich Weber
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Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
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Friedrich Welwitsch
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George Stephen West
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William West
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William West Jr
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Herbert Hice Whetzel
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August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel
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Lilly Wigg
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Johan Emanuel Wikström
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Carl Ludwig Willdenow
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Ernest Henry Wilson
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William Withering
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Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod
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Alphonso Wood
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John Medley Wood
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Charles Wright
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Franz Xavier von Wulfen
Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen (5 November 1728 – 17 March 1805) was an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest. He is credited with discovering the flowering plants ''Wulfenia carinthiaca'', ''Saxifraga mo ...
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Heinrich Wullschlägel
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Heinrich Wydler
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Ben-Erik van Wyk
X
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Hu Xiansu (1894–1968)
Y
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Gennady Yakovlev (1938–2024)
Z
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Milton Zaitlin (1927–2016)
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Kadir Zakirovič Zakirov (1906–1992)
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Giovanni Zanardini (1804–1878)
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Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799–1858)
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Daniel Zohary (1926–2016)
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Michael Zohary (1898–1983)
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Scott Zona (b. 1959)
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Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797–1848)
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Joy Zedler (b. 1943)
See also
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List of women botanists
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List of botanists by author abbreviation
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* Aa – Hubertus Antonius van der Aa (1935–2017)
* A.A.Burb. – Andrew A. Burbidge (floruit, fl. 2016)
* A.A.Cocucci – (born 1959)
* A.A.Eaton – Alvah Augustus Eaton (1865–1908)
* A.A.Fisch.Waldh. – Alexandr Alexandro ...
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List of authors of South African botanical taxa
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List of gardener-botanist explorers of the Enlightenment
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List of Hungarian botanists
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List of Russian biologists
This list of Russian biologists includes the famous biologists from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia. Biologists of all specialities may be listed here, including ecologists, botani ...
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List of Slovenian botanists
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