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Born December 27, 1860 • Pennsylvania
Died September 5, 1937 (aged 76) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Subjects Of Study bacteria • taxonomy
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist
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Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Oil painting by Jan Verkolje showing Antonie van Leeuwenhoek seated at a table with a globe, papers, inkstand, and a compass in hand, wearing a brown robe and white shirt.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
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
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Hans Buchner
German bacteriologist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
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George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist