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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Donald Forsha Jones
American agronomist
George Harrison Shull
American botanist
John Lorain
American agriculturalist
Farrer, William James
William James Farrer
Australian agriculturalist
Clusius, Carolus
Carolus Clusius
French botanist
Vavilov inspecting citrus trees at Maykop, Russian S.F.S.R., in 1935
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian geneticist