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Born October 16, 1708 • Bern • Switzerland
Died December 12, 1777 (aged 69) • Bern • Switzerland
Notable Works “Elements of Human Physiology”
Subjects Of Study plant • irritability • muscle • nerve • nerve impulse • taxonomy

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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist
Mirbel, Charles-François Brisseau de
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
French botanist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician

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