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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.
List of botanists by author abbreviation (C) List of botanists by author abbreviation (D) List of botanists by author abbreviation (E–F) List of botanists by author abbreviation (G) List of botanists by author abbreviation (H) List of botanists by author abbreviation (I–J) List of botanists by author abbreviation (K–L)
American botanist 1880-04-24 1971-10-16 United States: Alice Lounsberry: Botanist 1872 1949 United States: Alice Pegler: South African botanist 1861-07-21 1929-06-17 South Africa: Alicia Amherst: English horticulturist and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history. 1865 1941 Alicia Lourteig: Argentine botanist 1913-12 ...
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 ...
With an additional monetary contribution by the Scottish doctor Isaac Lawson, the manuscript was published as Systema Naturae (1735). [68] [69] Linnaeus became acquainted with one of the most respected physicians and botanists in the Netherlands, Herman Boerhaave, who tried to convince Linnaeus to make a career there. Boerhaave offered him a ...
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.