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Born June 5, 1656 • Aix-en-Provence • France
Died December 28, 1708 (aged 52) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study plant • taxonomy
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
French botanist
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist
Bernard de Jussieu, detail from an engraving
Bernard de Jussieu
French botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American 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
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
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August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
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Robert Morison
Scottish botanist
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Andrea Cesalpino
Italian physician, philosopher, and botanist
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
German scientist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist

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