Botany
Discover prominent individuals who have shaped the field of Botany. Explore the contributions of notable biologists, scientists, and researchers who have advanced our understanding of plant life.

Robert Bentley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist, physician, pharmacist

Konstantin Sytnik
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian scientist and politician. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Augustin Pyramus DeCandolle
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss and French botanist

Martinus Beijerinck
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch microbiologist and botanist

Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist

Aylmer Lambert
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist

William Aiton
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish botanist and gardener

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
France
FranceFrench natural scientist

Adam Afzelius
Sweden
SwedenSwedish botanist, student of Linnaeus.

Jan Gronovius
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch botanist

Alexis Jordan
France
FranceFrench botanist.

Norman Ernest Borlaug
USA
USAAmerican breeder and plant pathologist, father of the so-called. "green revolution"

Mariam Aghababyan
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian botanist

Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
France
FranceFrench botanist, naturalist, volcanologist and traveler

Thilo Irmisch
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist.

Goran Wahlenberg
Sweden
SwedenSwedish botanist

Hugo De Vries
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch botanist and geneticist. Discovered the existence of heritable mutations

Carlo Allioni
Italy
ItalyItalian physician, professor of botany at the University of Turin.

August-Quirinus Rivinus
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist (botanist, anatomist, astronomer),

David Don
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist of the first half of the 19th century

Birgitta Bremer
Sweden
SwedenSwedish botanist, professor

Johann Amman
Switzerland
SwitzerlandDoctor and botanist

Boris Kozo-Polyansky
Soviet botanist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Adelbert Chamisso
Germany
GermanyGerman writer and botanist

Fedor Brandt
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist, physician, zoologist and botanist

Gaspard Bauhin
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss anatomist and botanist, plant taxonomist

Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
Germany
Germany19th century German botanist

Carl Adolph Agardh
Sweden
SwedenSwedish botanist, algologist, bishop of the Church

Albert Francis Blakeslee
USA
USAAmerican botanist and geneticist

Robert Abolin
Russian and Soviet geobotanist, soil scientist, physical geographer

William Hooker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist and taxonomist

Petter Adolf Karsten
Finland
FinlandProfessor of Botany

George King
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist.

Osip Baranetsky
Botanist, professor of botany at Kiev University

Johann Christoph Doll
Germany
Germany19th century German botanist

Wilhelm Hofmeister
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist.

Frederic Clements
USA
USAAmerican botanist, plant ecologist and mycologist.

John Gilbert Baker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist

Karl Ludwig Willdenow
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist

George Bentham
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist

Nikolay Vavilov
Russian botanist, plant breeder, geneticist, geographer

Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart
France
FranceFrench botanist. Founder of modern paleobotany and developer of the classification of fossil plants.

Jean Bulliard
France
FranceFrench physician and botanist.

Nikolay Kuznetsov
Russian and Soviet botanical geographer, florist and taxonomist

Nikolay Bush
Russian botanist of the late 19th – early 20th centuries

Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Germany
GermanyFamous German botanist and bacteriologist

Siro Kitamura
Japan
JapanJapanese Botanist

Allan Cunningham
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist, brother of Richard Cunningham. Collected and studied the flora of Australia and partly New Zealand.

Oscar Drude
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, ecologist and geobotanist

Hugo Gunckel Luer
Chile
ChilePharmacist, botanist and university professor in Chile.