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Born May 21, 1866 • Canada
Died April 19, 1952 (aged 85) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study vascular plant • phylogeny
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Douglas Campbell
Douglas Houghton Campbell
American botanist
Charles Chamberlain, 1925
Charles Joseph Chamberlain
American botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
British botanist
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
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Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
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Karl von Goebel
German botanist
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John Coulter
American botanist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Portrait of William Bartram
William Bartram
American naturalist, botanist, and artist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
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Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
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Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Moss specialist
Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton
American botanist
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George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist

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