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.
Philipp Gottfried Gaertner
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist and mycologist.
Rene Desfontaines
France
FranceFrench botanist
Fedor Bieberstein
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, silkworm, traveler.
August-Quirinus Rivinus
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist (botanist, anatomist, astronomer),
Konstantin Sytnik
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian scientist and politician. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Yuriy Kos
Soviet botanist
Pierre Edmond Boissier
Sweden
SwedenSwiss botanist, traveler and mathematician
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Germany
GermanyFamous German botanist and bacteriologist
Johann Gustav Gassner
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, phytopathologist.
Albert Francis Blakeslee
USA
USAAmerican botanist and geneticist
Alexis Jordan
France
FranceFrench botanist.
William Hooker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist and taxonomist
Wilibald Besser
Austria
AustriaAustrian and Russian botanist and entomologist, doctor of medicine and professor of botany
Jean Bulliard
France
FranceFrench physician and botanist.
Robert Abolin
Russian and Soviet geobotanist, soil scientist, physical geographer
William Curtis
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist
Paul Sorauer
Germany
GermanyBotanist, specialist in plant diseases.
Heinrich Moritz Willkomm
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist and geographer
Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist and physician
Otto Brunfels
Germany
GermanyGerman theologian and botanist
Berthold Carl Seemann
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist and traveller.
Alwin Berger
Germany
GermanyGerman gardener and botanist
Rembert Dodoens
Netherlands
NetherlandsFamous southern Dutch (Flemish) and northern Dutch botanist
Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
France
FranceFrench botanist, naturalist, volcanologist and traveler
Jan Jonston
Germany
GermanyEuropean physician and naturalist
Muzaffar Geydar Abutalubov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani botanist.
Carl Gustav Calwer
Germany
GermanyGerman entomologist and botanist.
Eduard Fenzl
Austria
AustriaGerman botanist (1808-1879).
George Bentham
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist
Wilhelm Hofmeister
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist.
John Gilbert Baker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist
Karl-Heinrich Emil Koch
Germany
GermanyA famous German botanist and dendrologist.
Pedanius Dioscorides
Turkey
TurkeyAncient Greek military physician, pharmacologist and naturalist
Frederic Clements
USA
USAAmerican botanist, plant ecologist and mycologist.
Curt Backeberg
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist
Paul Ammann
Germany
GermanyGerman physician and botanist
Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
Germany
GermanyGerman pharmacist, botanist and physician.
Thilo Irmisch
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist.
Douglas Campbell
USA
USAAmerican botanist
Friedrich Welwitsch
Austria
AustriaAustrian physician, botanist, traveler
Joachim Hammerling
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist and university professor
Ronald D'Oyley Good
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist, florist and biogeographer.
Philibert Commerson
France
FranceFrench botanist and naturalist.
William Townsend Aiton
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist and gardener
Evgeniy Bobrov
Russian botanist
Karel Domin
Czech
CzechCzech botanist and politician.
Frans Reinhold Kjellmann
Sweden
SwedenSwedish botanist
Aylmer Lambert
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish botanist
Josias Braun-Blanquet
France
FranceOne of the greatest geobotanists of the 20th century
Prospero Alpini
Italy
ItalyItalian physician and botanist.