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George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
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Born January 6, 1906 • New York
Died January 19, 2000 (aged 94) • Davis • California
Notable Works “Variation and Evolution in Plants”
Subjects Of Study plant • genetic engineering • synthetic theory of evolution
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen
Danish botanist and geneticist
Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
Austrian botanist
Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
George Harrison Shull
American botanist
John Bartram
American naturalist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist

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