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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
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Born January 14, 1801 • Paris • France
Died February 18, 1876 (aged 75) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study plant • fossil • pollen • pollen tube • taxonomy
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
French botanist
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist
Bernard de Jussieu, detail from an engraving
Bernard de Jussieu
French botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
Frank Hall Knowlton
American paleobotanist
Robert Kidston
British paleobotanist

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