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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 .
The best-known gardener-botanists included those sent from the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, but mainly the Jardin du Roi (after the Revolution this became the Jardin des Plantes at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle) in Paris and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London as France and Britain sought to expand their colonial empires and influence ...
By the 18th century, the physic gardens had been transformed into "order beds" that demonstrated the classification systems that were being devised by botanists of the day — but they also had to accommodate the influx of curious, beautiful and new plants pouring in from voyages of exploration that were associated with European colonial expansion.
Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978), British botanist [323] with "notable contributions to plant ecology and to the study of the British flora generally" Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829), British botanist, [324] shunned by many botanists of his day; Jonas Salk (1914–1995), American biologist developed one of the first successful polio ...
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The famous botanist was buried in an unmarked grave, under a giant Cedar of Lebanon at the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens in Santa Rosa, California. The tree in the photo no longer stands. As Burbank's life drew to a close, the question arose as to who would carry on his work, and naturally there were many interested in doing so.
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 – 19 June 1820 [1]) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. [2] Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Cockayne's major contributions to botany were in plant ecology and in his theories of hybridisation. In 1899 he published the first New Zealand account of successional changes in vegetation. Between 1897 and 1930 he published 49 papers in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [3]