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.

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

German botanist

Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf

German botanist and physician

American botanist, geneticist, publisher and editor.

German botanist

Nikolay Vavilov

Russian botanist, plant breeder, geneticist, geographer

Boris Kozo-Polyansky

Soviet botanist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Joseph-Francois Lafitau

French Jesuit, founder of comparative anthropology.

German botanist

Swiss anatomist and botanist, plant taxonomist

Rene Desfontaines

French botanist

German botanist, florist, geobotanist.

Augustin Pyramus DeCandolle

Swiss and French botanist

Norman Ernest Borlaug

American breeder and plant pathologist, father of the so-called. "green revolution"

Jacob Georg Agardh

Swedish botanist, algologist.

Traugott Gerber

German doctor, botanist and traveler

German botanist

German scientist, botanist and physician, one of the "fathers" of modern botany.

Charles Sarzhent

American botanist.

Karl-Heinrich Emil Koch

A famous German botanist and dendrologist.

American botanist, mycologist and plant pathologist.

Evgeniy Korovin

Russian botanist

Pedanius Dioscorides

Ancient Greek military physician, pharmacologist and naturalist

German naturalist, physician, zoologist and botanist

English botanist

French botanist, famous explorer of tropical Africa

Muzaffar Geydar Abutalubov

Azerbaijani botanist.

Jesuit missionary and botanist.

Russian botanist

Russian (Ukrainian) Soviet botanist

Frans Reinhold Kjellmann

Swedish botanist

German theologian and botanist

Friedrich Wimmer

German botanist

Aimee Antoinette Camus

French botanist.

French botanist.

Swedish botanist

One of the most prominent botanists of the 19th century.

German botanist, bryologist and traveler

Petter Adolf Karsten

Professor of Botany

Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin

Austrian botanist, chemist and metallurgist.

Carl Adolph Agardh

Swedish botanist, algologist, bishop of the Church

English botanist and zoologist

German botanist

Russian botanist, florist and biogeographer

German botanist and traveller.

Carl Ludwig Blume

19th-century German-Dutch botanist and mycologist.

Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch

German botanist, taxonomist.

Swedish botanist, "the father of lichenology".

Russian and Soviet geobotanist, soil scientist, physical geographer

French physician and botanist.

Vladimir Lipskiy

Ukrainian scientist, botanist, member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences