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John Dalton FRS (/ ˈ d ɔː l t ən /; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. [1] He introduced the atomic theory into chemistry. He also researched colour blindness ; as a result, the umbrella term for red-green congenital colour blindness disorders is Daltonism in several languages.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. [1] He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin 's closest friend. [ 2 ]
This is an incomplete list of botanists by their author abbreviation, which is designed for citation with the botanical names or works that they have published. This list follows that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992). [1]
Peter Collinson – botanist with some interest in electricity; his family belonged to the Gracechurch meeting of the Religious Society of Friends; Edward Drinker Cope – early paleontologist who took part in the Bone Wars and for whom Cope's Rule is named; John Dalton – taught at a Quaker school, but is best known for work in atomic theory. [4]
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname.The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name.
But, after an amateur botanist hiking through the park during the work saw the harm done to some of the park’s Braunton’s milkvetch — a flowering shrub with only a few thousand specimens ...
William Watson (botanist) Frederick Ernest Weiss; Frederic Westcott; Richard Weston (botanist) Edward Whittall; Henry Wickham (explorer) Caroline, Lady Wilkinson; John Grimshaw Wilkinson; Nathaniel John Winch; George Buchanan Wollaston; Thomas William Woodhead; William Woodville; Thomas Jenkinson Woodward; Leonard Wray
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