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.

Johann Christoph Doll
Germany
Germany19th century German botanist

Otto Degener
USA
USAAmerican botanist and collector

Fedor Brandt
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist, physician, zoologist and botanist

Eugeniy Woolf
Russian botanist, florist and biogeographer

Jakub Waga
Poland
PolandPolish botanist

Richard Wettstein
Austria
AustriaAustrian botanist.

Vladimir Lipskiy
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian scientist, botanist, member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences

Siro Kitamura
Japan
JapanJapanese Botanist

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, mycologist and doctor of theology.

Gunther Beck
Austria
AustriaAustrian (German, Czech) botanist, professor

Albert Kellogg
USA
USAAmerican botanist and physician

Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, taxonomist.

John Hutton Balfour
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish botanist and bryologist.

John Gilbert Baker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist

Joseph Henry Maiden
Great Britain
Great BritainAustralian Botanist

Johann HEDWIG
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist

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

George Shull
USA
USAAmerican botanist, geneticist, publisher and editor.

Egbert Wolf
Germany
GermanyBotanist, dendrologist, taxonomist, introducer.

Wilhelm Hofmeister
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist.

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

Rembert Dodoens
Netherlands
NetherlandsFamous southern Dutch (Flemish) and northern Dutch botanist

Philibert Commerson
France
FranceFrench botanist and naturalist.

Johann Jakob Dillenius
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist of German origin.

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

Karl Wilhelm Dalla Torre
Austria
AustriaAustrian botanist and entomologist.

Michel Adanson
France
FranceFrench botanist, famous explorer of tropical Africa

Johann Gustav Gassner
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, phytopathologist.

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

Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist

Paul Sorauer
Germany
GermanyBotanist, specialist in plant diseases.

Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Germany
GermanyGerman physician, botanist and chemist

Evgeniy Korovin
Russian botanist

Adam Zaluzansky
Czech botanist, physician, theologian, poet

Aimee Antoinette Camus
France
FranceFrench botanist.

Petter Adolf Karsten
Finland
FinlandProfessor of Botany

Alexandr Fomin
Ukraine
UkraineRussian (Ukrainian) Soviet botanist

Anna Shiyan
Soviet botanist

Osip Baranetsky
Botanist, professor of botany at Kiev University

Joseph Gartner
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist and physician

George King
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist.

Henry Gleason
USA
USAAmerican botanist, geobotanist, ecologist

Charles Plumie
France
FranceFrench botanist.

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

Frederick Manson Bailey
Great Britain
Great BritainBotanist

Gustav Bongard
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist in Russian service

Karl Negeli
Germany
GermanyOne of the most prominent botanists of the 19th century.

Giovanni Grassi
Italy
ItalyItalian zoologist and parasitologist.

George Don
Great Britain
Great Britain19th century Scottish botanist and plant collector.

Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
Germany
Germany19th century German botanist