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Also Known As José Celestino Bruno Mutis
Born April 6, 1732 • Cádiz • Spain
Died September 11, 1808 (aged 76) • Bogotá
Notable Works “Flora de Bogotá o de Nueva Granada”
Subjects Of Study South America • plant

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Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Julius von Sachs
German 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
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Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Kaibara Ekken
Japanese philosopher
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen
Danish botanist and geneticist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist

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