LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ibn Al-Baitar	Botanist	c. 1197	c. 1248	Muslim botanist and pharmacist
Prospero Alpini	Botanist	23-Nov-1553	23-Nov-1616	De Plantis Aegypti liber
Sir Joseph Banks	Botanist	13-Feb-1743	19-Jun-1820	Accompanied James Cook
Gaspard Bauhin	Botanist	17-Jan-1560	5-Dec-1624	Pinax Theatri Botanici
Jacob Bigelow	Botanist	27-Feb-1787	10-Jan-1879	American Medical Botany
Hieronymus Bock	Botanist	1498	21-Feb-1554	Arranged and ordered plants systematically
J. C. Bose	Botanist	30-Nov-1858	23-Nov-1937	Plant physiology
Rudolph Boysen	Botanist	14-Jul-1895	25-Nov-1950	Created the boysenberry
Robert Brown	Botanist	21-Dec-1773	10-Jun-1858	Brownian motion
Luther Burbank	Botanist	7-Mar-1849	11-Apr-1926	Botanist and plant breeder
George Washington Carver	Botanist	c. 1860	5-Jan-1943	Crop rotation and peanut butter
E. J. H. Corner	Botanist	12-Jan-1906	14-Sep-1996	Durian theory
Heinrich Anton de Bary	Botanist	26-Jan-1831	19-Jan-1888	Founder of modern mycology
Réné Louiche Desfontaines	Botanist	14-Feb-1750	16-Nov-1833	Flora Atlantica Tunetano et Algeriensi
David G. Fairchild	Botanist	7-Apr-1869	6-Aug-1954	Brought exotic plants to America
Konrad von Gesner	Botanist	26-Mar-1516	13-Dec-1565	Historia animalium
Asa Gray	Botanist	18-Nov-1810	30-Jan-1888	Botany of the Northern United States
Nehemiah Grew	Botanist	26-Sep-1641	25-Mar-1712	Anatomy of Plants
Albrecht von Haller	Doctor	16-Oct-1708	12-Dec-1777	Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani
Wilhelm Hofmeister	Botanist	18-May-1824	12-Jan-1877	Alternation of generations in plants
Joseph Dalton Hooker	Botanist	30-Jun-1817	10-Dec-1911	Genera Plantarum
William Jackson Hooker	Botanist	6-Jul-1785	12-Aug-1865	British Jungermanniae
Carolus Linnaeus	Botanist	23-May-1707	10-Jan-1778	Created a taxonomy of the species
Gregor Mendel	Scientist	22-Jul-1822	6-Jan-1884	Discovered the laws of inheritance
John Muir	Activist	21-Apr-1838	24-Dec-1914	Patron saint of Yosemite National Park
Matthias Jakob Schleiden	Botanist	5-Apr-1804	23-Jun-1881	Principles of Scientific Botany
Jean Senebier	Botanist	7-May-1742	22-Jul-1809	Explained vegetable nutrition
John Torrey	Botanist	15-Aug-1796	10-Mar-1873	Flora of North America

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