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Born April 19, 1795 • Germany
Died June 27, 1876 (aged 81) • Berlin • Germany
Subjects Of Study coral • fossil • microorganism • plankton • microscope
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
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Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
David Douglas
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
American naturalist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
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William Lonsdale
British geologist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Newton, Alfred
Alfred Newton
British zoologist
Beebe, William
William Beebe
American biologist and explorer
Viktor Hensen
Viktor Hensen
German physiologist
Georg August Schweinfurth, detail from an engraving by A. Weger, after a photograph.
Georg August Schweinfurth
German botanist
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Friedrich August Quenstedt
German mineralogist and paleontologist
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Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
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Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Painting by Albert Edelfelt showing Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, holding a glass flask and examining it intently, surrounded by scientific equipment on a workbench.
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist

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