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Born December 16, 1859 • Detroit • Michigan
Died February 24, 1953 (aged 93) • Palo Alto • California
Notable Works “Evolution of the Land Plants” • “The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns”
Subjects Of Study fern • moss • vascular plant • evolution • sexual reproduction

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Frederick Orpen Bower, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Orpen; in the University of Glasgow Art Collections
Frederick Orpen Bower
English botanist
Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight
Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton
American botanist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
Edward Charles Jeffrey
American botanist
Charles Chamberlain, 1925
Charles Joseph Chamberlain
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sir William Jackson Hooker
British botanist
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
George Bentham, oil painting by Lewis Dickensen, 1870; in the collection of the Linnean Society of London
George Bentham
British botanist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist
Johann Hedwig, detail from an engraving, 1793
Johann Hedwig
Transylvanian botanist
Rudolph Jacob Camerarius
German botanist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
John Coulter
American botanist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist

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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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