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Born May 6, 1742 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died July 22, 1809 (aged 67) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “Physiologie végétale”
Subjects Of Study photosynthesis
Albert F. Frey-Wyssling
Swiss botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
Thomas Nuttall, engraving by Thomson, 1825, after a drawing by W. Derby
Thomas Nuttall
British naturalist
William Turner
English botanist
John Bartram
American naturalist
John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
British naturalist and paleontologist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-American scientist and educator
Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Swiss botanist
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
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure
Swiss scientist
Abraham Trembley
Swiss naturalist

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