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Born April 12, 1748 • Lyon • France
Died September 17, 1836 (aged 88) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Genera Plantarum Secundum Ordines Naturales Disposita, Juxia Methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi Exaratam, Anno 1774”
Subjects Of Study plant • taxonomy

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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
French botanist
Bernard de Jussieu, detail from an engraving
Bernard de Jussieu
French botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American 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
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Robert Morison
Scottish botanist
Andrea Cesalpino
Italian physician, philosopher, and botanist
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
German scientist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist

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