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Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Alphonse-Louis-Pierre Pyrame de Candolle
Born October 27, 1806 or October 28, 1806 • Paris • France
Died April 4, 1893 • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Family Members father Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Subjects Of Study plant • population distribution
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
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Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
Title page of Flora Boreali-Americana by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), printed in 1803,
André Michaux
French botanist
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Julius von Sachs
German botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
David Douglas
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
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Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
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George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
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Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist

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