| NAME |
OCCUPATION |
SUMMARY |
BORN |
DIED |
|
Prospero Alpini
|
Botanist |
De Plantis Aegypti liber |
23-Nov-1553 |
23-Nov-1616 |
DEAD
|
Sir Joseph Banks
|
Botanist |
Accompanied James Cook |
13-Feb-1743 |
19-Jun-1820 |
DEAD
|
Gaspard Bauhin
|
Botanist |
Pinax Theatri Botanici |
17-Jan-1560 |
05-Dec-1624 |
DEAD
|
Jacob Bigelow
|
Botanist |
American Medical Botany |
27-Feb-1786 |
10-Jan-1879 |
DEAD
|
Hieronymus Bock
|
Botanist |
Arranged and ordered plants systematically |
1498 |
21-Feb-1554 |
DEAD
|
Rudolph Boysen
|
Botanist |
Created the Boysenberry |
14-Jul-1895 |
25-Nov-1950 |
DEAD
|
Robert Brown
|
Botanist |
Brownian motion |
21-Dec-1773 |
10-Jun-1858 |
DEAD
|
Luther Burbank
|
Botanist |
Botanist and plant breeder |
07-Mar-1849 |
11-Apr-1926 |
DEAD
|
Heinrich Anton de Bary
|
Botanist |
Founder of modern mycology |
26-Jan-1831 |
19-Jan-1888 |
DEAD
|
Réné Louiche Desfontaines
|
Botanist |
Flora Atlantica Tunetano et Algeriensi |
14-Feb-1750 |
16-Nov-1833 |
DEAD
|
David G. Fairchild
|
Botanist |
Brought exotic plants to America |
07-Apr-1869 |
06-Aug-1954 |
DEAD
|
Konrad von Gesner
|
Botanist |
Historia animalium |
26-Mar-1516 |
13-Dec-1565 |
DEAD
|
Asa Gray
|
Botanist |
Botany of the Northern United States |
18-Nov-1810 |
30-Jan-1888 |
DEAD
|
Nehemiah Grew
|
Botanist |
Anatomy of Plants |
26-Sep-1641 |
25-Mar-1712 |
DEAD
|
Wilhelm Hofmeister
|
Botanist |
Alternation of generations in plants |
18-May-1824 |
12-Jan-1877 |
DEAD
|
Joseph Dalton Hooker
|
Botanist |
Genera Plantarum |
30-Jun-1817 |
10-Dec-1911 |
DEAD
|
William Jackson Hooker
|
Botanist |
British Jungermanniae |
06-Jul-1785 |
12-Aug-1865 |
DEAD
|
Carolus Linnaeus
|
Botanist |
Created a taxonomy of the species |
23-May-1707 |
10-Jan-1778 |
DEAD
|
Jean Senebier
|
Botanist |
Explained vegetable nutrition |
07-May-1742 |
22-Jul-1809 |
DEAD
|
John Torrey
|
Botanist |
Flora of North America |
15-Aug-1796 |
10-Mar-1873 |
DEAD
|
