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Sir Joseph Banks
English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
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Robert Brown
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
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George Washington Carver
United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)
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Ferdinand Julius Cohn
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
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William Curtis
English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)
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Hugo De Vries
Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)
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Asa Gray
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)
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Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)
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Gregor Mendel
Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)
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John Tradescant
English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)
