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Also Known As Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer
Born March 9, 1845 • Germany
Died January 31, 1920 (aged 74) • Leipzig • Germany
Subjects Of Study osmosis

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Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
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Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
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Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
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Sir Ferdinand von Mueller
German botanist
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
Heinrich Anton de Bary
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Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist
Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
German botanist
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
German botanist
Karl von Goebel
German botanist
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
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Rudolph Jacob Camerarius
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