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Born February 27, 1869 • Berlin • Connecticut
Died September 12, 1939 (aged 70) • Chicago • Illinois
Subjects Of Study ecological succession
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming
Danish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
John Bartram
American naturalist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi writer and scientist

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