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Born December 27, 1860 • Pennsylvania
Died September 5, 1937 (aged 76) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Subjects Of Study bacteria • taxonomy
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
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
Hans Buchner
German bacteriologist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Sarah Josepha Hale.
Sarah Josepha Hale
American author
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist