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Georg W. Steller: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Georg W. Stöller • Georg Wilhelm Steller • Georg W. Stohler
Born March 10, 1709 • Germany
Died November 14, 1746 (aged 37) • Tyumen • Russia • (Anniversary tomorrow)
Role In Great Northern Expedition

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
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Félix Dujardin
French biologist
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
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Julius von Sachs
German botanist
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Nicholas Of Cusa
cardinal, scientist, scholar, and philosopher
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Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
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Richard B. Goldschmidt
German-born American zoologist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
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Willi Hennig
German zoologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
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Karl August Möbius
German zoologist
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Katherine Esau
American botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
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August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Schimper
Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
German botanist
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Sir Ferdinand von Mueller
German botanist

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