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Born October 16, 1708 • Bern • Switzerland
Died December 12, 1777 (aged 69) • Bern • Switzerland
Notable Works “Elements of Human Physiology”
Subjects Of Study plant • irritability • muscle • nerve • nerve impulse • taxonomy

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Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
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Adolf Engler
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Austrian botanist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
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Conrad Gesner
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Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
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Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Galen of Pergamum
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John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
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Frederic Edward Clements
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Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
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Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
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August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician

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