Botanists with author abbreviations

Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)

French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)

Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

French naturalist (1744-1829)

British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)

German zoologist (1834-1919)

Theophrastus (; ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy in Athens. Theophrastus wrote numerous treatises across all areas of philosophy, working to support, improve, expand, and develop the Aristotelian system. He made significant contributions to various fields, including ethics, metaphysics, botany, and natural history. Often considered the "father of botany" for his groundbreaking works "Enquiry into Plants" () and "On the

French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)

Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)

French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)

German poet and botanist (1781–1838)

Polish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996)

Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion (1773–1858)

German zoologist and botanist (1741–1811)

African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)

British zoologist (1800–1875)

British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)

Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)

Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)

Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)

French botanist (1748–1836)

British botanist (1627–1705)

Dutch botanist (1848-1935)

German botanist and philosopher (1804-1881)

French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)

English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)

Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901)

Swiss botanist (1778–1841)

Russian botanist (1855-1935)

British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)

British nobleman, art collector, and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1713-1792)

German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)

German naturalist (1748–1804)

English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)

Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)

British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)

Tyrolean physician and naturalist (1723-1788)

British physician, chemist, botanist and physicist (1749–1819)

German mycologist (1761-1836)

Danish zoologist (1745–1808)

Russian explorer and scientist

Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms (1794–1878)

British Ornithologist and Founder of the Indian National Congress (1829–1912)

English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)

Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)

French botanist (1656-1708)

German biologist (1795–1876)

French scientist (1802–1857)

British botanist (1691-1771)

Irish botanist, doctor, and collector (1660-1753)

Genevan scientist (1740-1799)

chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)

American explorer (1774-1809)

English botanist and zoologist (1751–1813)

German botanist (1844-1930)

German naturalist (1729–1798)

French naturalist (1727-1806)