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Georg W. Steller
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Also Known As Georg W. Stohler • Georg Wilhelm Steller • Georg W. Stöller
Born March 10, 1709 • Germany
Died November 14, 1746 (aged 37) • Tyumen • Russia
Role In Great Northern Expedition

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Turkish naturalist
Félix Dujardin
French biologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Richard B. Goldschmidt
German-born American zoologist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
Willi Hennig
German zoologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Karl August Möbius
German zoologist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Schimper
Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
German botanist
Sir Ferdinand von Mueller
German botanist

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