Sir John Arthur Thomson: Quick Facts

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James Hutton

Scottish geologist

John Muir

Scottish-born American naturalist

Sir Robert Sibbald

Scottish physician and antiquarian

Thomas Davidson

Scottish paleontologist

Amos Eaton

American botanist, geologist, and lawyer

Charles Darwin

British naturalist

Alfred Russel Wallace

British naturalist

Louis Agassiz

Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher

John Ray

English naturalist

Ferdinand Cohn

German botanist

Conrad Gesner

Swiss physician and naturalist

Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet

British physician

John James Audubon

ornithologist, artist, and naturalist

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

French naturalist

Jeanne Villepreux-Power

French-born naturalist

Bernard Palissy

French potter and scientist

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

American educator and naturalist

Jan Swammerdam

Dutch naturalist

William Whewell

British philosopher and historian

Roy Chapman Andrews

American naturalist