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.

German botanist

19th century Scottish botanist and plant collector.

Nikolay Vavilov

Russian botanist, plant breeder, geneticist, geographer

Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin

Austrian botanist, chemist and metallurgist.

Charles Sarzhent

American botanist.

Johann Maria Hildebrandt

German botanist and explorer of the nature of Africa and Madagascar.

Russian (Ukrainian) Soviet botanist

19th century American botanist and florist

American botanist, geobotanist, ecologist

Aimee Antoinette Camus

French botanist.

Botanist, dendrologist, taxonomist, introducer.

English botanist and zoologist

German botanist in Russian service

Heinrich Crantz

Austrian physician and botanist.

Karl Wilhelm Dalla Torre

Austrian botanist and entomologist.

German botanist, bryologist and traveler

Petter Adolf Karsten

Professor of Botany

Jesuit missionary and botanist.

German scientist.

Carl Adolph Agardh

Swedish botanist, algologist, bishop of the Church

Russian plant physiologist and biochemist

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

German naturalist, physician, zoologist and botanist

Swedish botanist, student of Linnaeus.

Johann Jakob Dillenius

English botanist of German origin.

English botanist.

August Grisebach

German botanist

Boris Kozo-Polyansky

Soviet botanist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Austrian botanist

Swiss encyclopedist.

Edward Lee Greene

American botanist, taxonomist and plant collector.

German botanist and traveller.

Fedor Krasheninnikov

Russian botanist, plant physiologist

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

Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini

The last representative of the famous Cassini

Francisco Blanco

Spanish monk and botanist.

Karl Ludwig Willdenow

German botanist

Doctor and botanist

Augustin Pyramus DeCandolle

Swiss and French botanist

Charles Austin Gardner

Australian botanist of English origin.

Friedrich Wimmer

German botanist

English botanist, physician, pharmacist

Swedish botanist, "the father of lichenology".

Jacob Georg Agardh

Swedish botanist, algologist.

Adelbert Chamisso

German writer and botanist

Antoine-Laurent Jussieu

French botanist, director of the Paris Botanical Garden

Danish botanist and zoologist.

Alphonse Candolle

Swiss botanist and biogeographer.

Philipp Gottfried Gaertner

German botanist and mycologist.

Rene Desfontaines

French botanist