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Born April 3, 1898
Died June 4, 1997 (aged 99) • Santa Barbara • United States
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1989)
Notable Works “Plant Anatomy”
Subjects Of Study plant
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Alberts, Bruce
Bruce Alberts
American scientist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
Sir Ferdinand von Mueller
German botanist
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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