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Born September 7, 1677 or September 17, 1677 • England
Died January 4, 1761 • Teddington • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1739)
Notable Works “Haemastaticks” • “Vegetable Staticks”
Subjects Of Study pressure • sap • transpiration • measurement

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Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian plant physiologist and physicist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
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Henry Horatio Dixon
Irish botanist
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Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist
Pfeffer, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Pfeffer
German botanist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
French botanist
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Carl F.W. Ludwig, detail of an engraving
Carl F.W. Ludwig
German physiologist
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Kenneth V. Thimann
American plant physiologist
Nehemiah Grew
Nehemiah Grew
English botanist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
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Sir William Maddock Bayliss
British physiologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist

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