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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart: Quick Facts

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Born January 14, 1801 • Paris • France
Died February 18, 1876 (aged 75) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study plant • fossil • pollen • pollen tube • taxonomy
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
French botanist
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist
Bernard de Jussieu, detail from an engraving
Bernard de Jussieu
French botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
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August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
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Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
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Frank Hall Knowlton
American paleobotanist
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Robert Kidston
British paleobotanist

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