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Also Known As Ferdinand Gustav Julius von Sachs
Born October 2, 1832 • Germany
Died May 29, 1897 (aged 64) • Würzburg • Germany
Notable Works “Handbuch der Experimental Physiologie der Pflanzen” • “History of Botany 1530-1860” • “Lehrbuch der Botanik”
Subjects Of Study plant • transpiration • tropism
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Pfeffer, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Pfeffer
German botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Dennis Robert Hoagland
American botanist
Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
French botanist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Voit, Carl von
Carl von Voit
German physiologist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Sir Ferdinand von Mueller
German botanist
Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
Heinrich Anton de Bary
German botanist
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist
Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
German botanist
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
German botanist
Karl von Goebel
German botanist

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