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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Quick Facts

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Born June 30, 1817 • England
Died December 10, 1911 (aged 94) • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1887)
Notable Works “Genera Plantarum”
Subjects Of Study Darwinism

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sir William Jackson Hooker
British botanist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
David Douglas
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Francis Galton
Francis Galton
British scientist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Georg August Schweinfurth, detail from an engraving by A. Weger, after a photograph.
Georg August Schweinfurth
German botanist
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Joseph de Jussieu
French botanist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Murray, Sir John
Sir John Murray
Scottish Canadian oceanographer
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist

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