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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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