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Born May 6, 1742 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died July 22, 1809 (aged 67) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “Physiologie végétale”
Subjects Of Study photosynthesis
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Albert F. Frey-Wyssling
Swiss botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
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William Turner
English botanist
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John Bartram
American naturalist
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John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
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Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Swiss 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
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
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Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
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Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure
Swiss scientist
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Abraham Trembley
Swiss naturalist

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