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• Nikolaus Ager
• William Aiton
• Aratus
• Churchill Babington
• Joseph Banks
• Philip Barker Webb
• John Bartram
• William Bartram
• David Bellamy
• George Bentham
• Charles Bonnet
• George Washington Carver
• Adelbert von Chamisso
• Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
• Nicholas CulpeperNicholas Culpeper ( 1616 1654 in London) was an English botanist, physician, and astrologist. He was the son of Nicholas Culpeper, a clergyman. He studied in Cambridge, and afterwards became apprenticed to an apothecary. He ran a pharmacy in the Halfway H
• Anders DahlAnders (Andreas) Dahl ( March 17, 1751 May 25, 1789) was a Swedish botanist and student of Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him. In 1770, Dahl entered Uppsala University as a freshman ( Carolus Linnaeus died in 1778). After receiving the bachelo (namesake of the Dahlia30 species, 20,000 cultivars Dahlia is a genus of bushy, summer- and autumn-flowering, tuberous perennials that are originally from Mexico, where they are the national flower. In 1872 a box of Dahlia roots were sent from Mexico to the Netherlands. Only on)
• Johann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jakob Dillen (Dillenius ( 1684 April 2, 1747) was a German botanist. Dillen was born at Darmstadt and was educated at the university of Giessen, where he wrote several botanical papers for the Ephemerides naturae curiosorum and printed, in 1719, hi ( 1684Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland to liberate Europe from the Ottoman Turkish rule. Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Ma - 1747Events January 31 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital April 9 The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain May 3 Battle)
• Pedanius DioscoridesPedanius Dioscorides (ca. 40 AD in Anazarba, Turkey ca 90 AD) was a Greek physician whose de materia Medica on Medical Matters is an important source on the knowledge of medicinal plants used by the Greeks and Romans. The book was widely used in early her
• David DouglasDavid Douglas ( 1799 1834) was a Scottish botanist. The son of a stonemason he was born in the village of Scone north-west of Perth. He attended Kinnoul School and upon leaving he found work as an apprentice gardener in the estate of the 3rd Earl of Mansf
• Jonas C. Dryander
• Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (namesake of the California Poppy)
• Robert Fortune
• Elias Magnus Fries (one of the founders of modern mushroom taxonomy )
• John Gerard
• Guranda Gvaladze
• Joseph Dalton Hooker
• William Jackson Hooker
• Wilhelm Johannsen (coined the term gene)
• Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
• Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour ( 1773 - 1826)
• Carolus Linnaeus (founder of systematics)
• Gregor Mendel ('discovered' Genetics while studying sweet peas)
• André Michaux
• Thomas Nuttall
• Paul Petard
• Pliny the Elder, Roman natural historian
• Paul Emile de Puydt
• C. S. Rafinesque
• Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
• Georgius Everhardus Rumphius ( 1627- 1702)
• Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
• Matthias Jakob Schleiden (co-founder of cell theory)
• Daniel Solander
• Theophrastus, pupil of Aristotle
• Carl Peter Thunberg ( 1743- 1828)
• John Torrey
• Joseph Pitton de Tournefort ( 1656 - 1708)
• John Tradescant the Elder and his son the Younger

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