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Born c.40 • Anazarbus • Turkey
Died c.90
Notable Works “De materia medica”
Subjects Of Study plant • nomenclature

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Crateuas
Greek artist and physician
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
French botanist
Andrea Cesalpino
Italian physician, philosopher, and botanist
Rembert Dodoens
Flemish physician and botanist
Alpini, engraving
Prospero Alpini
Italian scientist
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
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
William Withering
William Withering
English physician
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
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar

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