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Born April 7, 1727 • Aix-en-Provence • France
Died August 3, 1806 (aged 79) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Histoire naturelle du Sénégal”
Subjects Of Study plant • nomenclature • taxonomy

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Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.
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Bernard de Jussieu, detail from an engraving
Bernard de Jussieu
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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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
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Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
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August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
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Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
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
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