Carl Peter Thunberg

Carl Peter Thunberg

male, deceased (1828)
Carl Peter Thunberg (November 11, 1743-August 8, 1828) was a Swedish naturalist. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the...
Philipp Franz von Siebold

Philipp Franz von Siebold

male, deceased (1866)
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician. He emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan. He obtained...
Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini

Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini

male, deceased (1848)
Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of München. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von S...
Robert Fortune

Robert Fortune

male, deceased (1880)
Robert Fortune (September 16, 1812 - April 13, 1880), was a Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India.

Yasuyoshi Shirasawa

deceased (1947)
Yasuyoshi Shirasawa was a Japanese botanist who worked alongside the legendary Tomitaro Makino, 'The Father of Japanese Botany', at the University...
Carl Maximowicz

Carl Maximowicz

male, deceased (1891)
Carl Johann Maximowicz (also Karl Ivanovich Maximowicz; born 1827 in Tula, Russia, died 1891 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian botanist. Born a...

Adrien René Franchet

male
Adrien René Franchet was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his extensive work de...