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.
Simon Shvendener
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss botanist.
Arthur Cronquist
USA
USAAmerican botanist
Evgeniy Bobrov
Russian botanist
Carl Ludwig Blume
Netherlands
Netherlands19th-century German-Dutch botanist and mycologist.
Konrad Gesner
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss encyclopedist.
William Townsend Aiton
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist and gardener
Johann Amman
Switzerland
SwitzerlandDoctor and botanist
Eduard Fenzl
Austria
AustriaGerman botanist (1808-1879).
Anastasio Guzman
Spain
SpainSpanish pharmacist, botanist, zoologist, traveler
Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre
France
FranceFrench botanist and plant taxonomist
Mikhail Kotov
Soviet botanist - taxonomist, geobotanist
Paul Grabner
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, florist, geobotanist.
William Hooker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist and taxonomist
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Germany
GermanyFamous German botanist and bacteriologist
Ludwig Diels
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist and traveller.
Heinrich Moritz Willkomm
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist and geographer
Norman Ernest Borlaug
USA
USAAmerican breeder and plant pathologist, father of the so-called. "green revolution"
Jahn Lamark
France
FranceBotanist
Birgitta Bremer
Sweden
SwedenSwedish botanist, professor
Chester Dewey
USA
USAAmerican botanist, priest and educator
Nicholas Culpeper
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish pharmacist, botanist and physician
Jan Gronovius
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch botanist
Robert Bentley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist, physician, pharmacist
Friedrich Welwitsch
Austria
AustriaAustrian physician, botanist, traveler
Nathaniel Lord Britton
USA
USAAmerican botanist and taxonomist
Asa Gray
USA
USA19th century American botanist and florist
Ioahim Ung
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist.
Fedor Bieberstein
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, silkworm, traveler.
Gaspard Bauhin
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss anatomist and botanist, plant taxonomist
Clas Alstromer
Sweden
SwedenSwedish naturalist, botanist, industrialist and philanthropist
Otto Brunfels
Germany
GermanyGerman theologian and botanist
Johann Christian Buxbaum
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist
Ignaz Dorfler
Austria
AustriaAustrian botanist
Nikolay Kuznetsov
Russian and Soviet botanical geographer, florist and taxonomist
Paul Ammann
Germany
GermanyGerman physician and botanist
Boris Kozo-Polyansky
Soviet botanist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Emmanuel Drake del Castillo
France
FranceFrench botanist of Spanish origin.
Carlo Allioni
Italy
ItalyItalian physician, professor of botany at the University of Turin.
Douglas Campbell
USA
USAAmerican botanist
Traugott Gerber
Germany
GermanyGerman doctor, botanist and traveler
Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin
Austria
AustriaAustrian botanist, chemist and metallurgist.
Francisco Blanco
Spain
SpainSpanish monk and botanist.
Curt Backeberg
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist
Edward Lee Greene
USA
USAAmerican botanist, taxonomist and plant collector.
Joseph de Tournefort
France
FranceFrench botanist, professor of botany at the Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants in Paris, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.
Fedor Krasheninnikov
Russian botanist, plant physiologist
Giovanni Tsanardini
Italy
ItalyFamous Italian botanist and algologist
Wilibald Besser
Austria
AustriaAustrian and Russian botanist and entomologist, doctor of medicine and professor of botany
Antoine-Laurent Jussieu
France
FranceFrench botanist, director of the Paris Botanical Garden
Thomas Nuttall
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist and zoologist