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Born February 9, 1839 • Maine
Died December 10, 1926 (aged 87) • Santa Barbara • California
Subjects Of Study invertebrate • ocean
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Philip Henry Gosse, portrait miniature by W. Gosse, 1839; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Philip Henry Gosse
British naturalist
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Agassiz
Swiss scientist
Akeley, Carl E.
Carl E. Akeley
American naturalist and explorer
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist
Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
Goode, G. Brown
G. Brown Goode
American zoologist
John Bartram
American naturalist
Edmund Newton Harvey
American zoologist
Augustus A. Gould
American naturalist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Sloane, detail of an oil painting by S. Slaughter, 1736; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet
British physician

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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