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page 1Botanists with author abbreviations
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
Ernst Haeckel
German zoologist (1834-1919)

Theophrastus
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
Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
Elias Lönnrot
Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)
John James Audubon
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)
Adelbert von Chamisso
German poet and botanist (1781–1838)
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996)
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion (1773–1858)

Peter Simon Pallas
German zoologist and botanist (1741–1811)
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
John Edward Gray
British zoologist (1800–1875)
Thomas Stamford Raffles
British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)

Conrad Gessner
Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)
William Jones
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist (1748–1836)
John Ray
British botanist (1627–1705)

Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist (1848-1935)
Matthias Jacob Schleiden
German botanist and philosopher (1804-1881)
Jules Dumont d'Urville
French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)

Joseph Banks
English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901)

Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle
Swiss botanist (1778–1841)
Ivan Michurin
Russian botanist (1855-1935)
Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
British nobleman, art collector, and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1713-1792)

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

Johann Friedrich Gmelin
German naturalist (1748–1804)
William Buckland
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
Herman Boerhaave
Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Tyrolean physician and naturalist (1723-1788)
Daniel Rutherford
British physician, chemist, botanist and physicist (1749–1819)
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
German mycologist (1761-1836)

Johan Fabricius
Danish zoologist (1745–1808)

Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
Russian explorer and scientist

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

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

William Carey
English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist (1656-1708)

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist (1795–1876)

Alcide d'Orbigny
French scientist (1802–1857)

Philip Miller
British botanist (1691-1771)

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

Horace Bénédict de Saussure
Genevan scientist (1740-1799)

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer (1774-1809)

George Shaw
English botanist and zoologist (1751–1813)
Adolf Engler
German botanist (1844-1930)

Johann Reinhold Forster
German naturalist (1729–1798)

Michel Adanson
French naturalist (1727-1806)