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Flourished c.900 -
Notable Works “al-Fillahah an-Nabatiyah”
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Ibn al-ʿAwwām
Islamic author
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John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
Roman author
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Muslim alchemist
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
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Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician