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Also Known As Elias Magnus Fries
Born August 15, 1794 • Sweden
Died February 8, 1878 (aged 83) • Uppsala • Sweden
Notable Works “Lichenographia Europaea Reformata” • “Systema Mycologicum”
Subjects Of Study fungus • taxonomy

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Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sir William Jackson Hooker
British botanist
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
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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Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Hitchcock, Albert Spear
Albert Spear Hitchcock
American 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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Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist

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