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Born November 9, 1874 • New York
Died November 16, 1954 (aged 80) • Northampton • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study jimsonweed • plant • fungus • genetics • sexual reproduction
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen
Danish botanist and geneticist
Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
Austrian botanist
Heinrich Anton de Bary
German botanist
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist
Rudolph Jacob Camerarius
German botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Douglas Campbell
Douglas Houghton Campbell
American botanist

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