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Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle
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Also Known As Alphonse-Louis-Pierre Pyrame de Candolle
Born October 27, 1806 or October 28, 1806 • Paris • France
Died April 4, 1893 • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Family Members father Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Subjects Of Study plant • population distribution
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Forbes, Edward
Edward Forbes
British naturalist
Kaibara Ekken
Japanese philosopher

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