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Also Known As Casper Bauhin
Born January 17, 1560 • Basel • Switzerland
Died December 5, 1624 (aged 64) • Basel • Switzerland
Notable Works “Microcosmographia, A Description of the Body of Man” • “Pinax theatri botanica”
Subjects Of Study binomial nomenclature • taxonomy

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Frederic Edward Clements
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Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
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Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
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
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
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Engler
Adolf Engler
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
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Hitchcock, Albert Spear
Albert Spear Hitchcock
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August Wilhelm Eichler
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
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