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page 120th-century American botanists
Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist

Liberty Hyde Bailey
U.S. botanist (1858-1954)
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
American botanist (1858-1934)
Nathaniel Lord Britton
American botanist and geologist (1859-1934)
Arthur Cronquist
American botanist (1919–1992)
Elmer Drew Merrill
U.S. botanist (1876–1956)
Alice Eastwood
Canadian American botanist (1859-1953)
Mary Agnes Chase
U.S. botanist, botanical collector and scientific illustrator (1869–1963)
Isabella Abbott
Hawaiian-American professor of botany, ethnobotanist and specialist in algology (1919-2010)
Will Geer
American actor and activist (1902–1978)
Richard Evans Schultes
American ethnobotanist (1915-2001)
Joseph Rock
Austrian-American scientist-explorer (1884-1962)
John Kunkel Small
American botanist (1869-1938)
George Ledyard Stebbins
American botanist and geneticist (1906-2000)
Katherine Esau
German-American botanist (1898-1997)

Mary Katharine Brandegee
American botanist (1844-1920)
Herbert Faulkner Copeland
American biologist (1902–1968)
Albert Charles Smith
American botanist (1906-1999)
Oakes Ames
American botanist (1874-1950)
Doris Duke
American heiress, philanthropist and billionaire (1912-1993)
Edward Lee Greene
American botanist (1843-1915)
Annie Morrill Smith
American botanist (1856-1946)
Edith Schwartz Clements
U.S. botanist and botanical illustrator (1874–1971)
Charles Sprague Sargent
American botanist (1841-1927)
Joseph Nelson Rose
U.S. botanist (1862–1928)
Paul Carpenter Standley
American botanist (1884-1963)

Peter H. Raven
American botanist
William Gilson Farlow
American botanist (1844–1919)
Henry Gleason
American ecologist (1882-1975)
Leslie A. Garay
Hungarian-born U.S. botanist (1924–2016)
Edgar Anderson
American botanist (1897-1969)
Clara H. Hasse
American botanist (1880-1926)
George Henry Hamilton Tate
American zoologist and botanist (1894-1953)
Philip Hershkovitz
U.S. zoologist (1909–1997)
Addison Brown
United States federal judge, astronomer and botanist (1830-1913)
Witmer Stone
American ornithologist (1866-1939)
David Grandison Fairchild
American botanist, mycologist and explorer (1869-1954)
Ynes Mexia
Mexican-American botanist (1870–1938)
Margaret Clay Ferguson
American botanist and botanical collector (1863-1951)
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist (1874-1954)
Albert Spear Hitchcock
American botanist and agrostologist (1865-1935)
John Merle Coulter
U.S. Botanist (1851-1928)
George Francis Atkinson
American botanist (1854-1918)
William Trelease
American botanist and entomologist (1857–1945)
Mary-Dell Chilton
American biologist (born 1939)
Edward Harrison Taylor
American herpetologist (1889-1978)
Katherine Olivia Sessions
American botanist and landscape architect (1857-1940)
George Valentine Nash
American botanist (1864-1921)
Thomas Barbour
American zoologist (1884-1946)
James L. Reveal
U.S. botanist (1941–2015)

Alfred Rehder
German-American professor of botany (1863-1949)
Anna Murray Vail
American botanist, botanical collector, librarian and editor (1863-1955)
Ruth Lyttle Satter
American botanist, physiologist and mathematician (1923-1989)
Harriet Creighton
American geneticist (1909-2004)
Lyman Bradford Smith
U.S. botanist (1904-1997)
Ivan Murray Johnston
American botanist (1898-1960)
Elzada Clover
American botanist (1897-1980)
Aven Nelson
U.S. botanist (1859–1952)
Robert Folger Thorne
American botanist (1920-2015)
Julian Alfred Steyermark
American botanist (1909-1988)