David Douglas

David Douglas

male, deceased (1834)
explorer, Scottish Highlands, Botanists active in North America, University of Glasgow, royal horticultural society, pacific northwest…Botanist
David Douglas (June 25, 1799 - 1834) was a Scottish botanist. The son of a stonemason, he was born in the village of Scone north-west of Perth. He...
John Bartram

John Bartram

male, deceased (1777)
Botanist, quaker, ohio river, american philosophical society, botany, Botanists active in North America
John Bartram (May 23, 1699 O.S., Darby, Pennsylvania - September 22, 1777, Philadelphia) was an American botanist. Carolus Linnaeus said he was the...

Theophrastus

male
from the North Aegean, Eressos, Tyrtamus, Causes of Plants, Enquiry into plants, Lives of the Philosopher…Botanist
Theophrastus, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, was the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. All the biographical information we have of...
Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank

male, deceased (1926)
Burbank potato, Strains, plant, National Inventors Hall of Fame, botany, grain…Botanist
Luther Burbank (March 7 1849 - April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more...
Katherine Esau

Katherine Esau

female, deceased (1997)
German, Russian Empire, National Medal of Science recipient, Anatomy of Seed Plants, ukrainian, anatomist…Botanist
Katherine Esau (3 April, 1898 - 4 June 1997) was a German-American botanist. She was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire ("now Dnipropetrovsk,...
William Bartram

William Bartram

male, deceased (1823)
showcase garden, fauna, Naturalist, Ornithologist, Botanists active in North America, Botanist
William Bartram was an American naturalist, the son of John Bartram. Bartram was born in Kingsessing, Pennsylvania. He accompanied his father on...
Francis Darwin

Francis Darwin

male, deceased (1925)
Darwin-Wedgwood family, from Downe, English, British, botany, Biologist…Botanist
Sir Francis "Frank" Darwin, F.R.S. (August 16 1848 - 19 September 1925), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, followed his father into...
John Ray

John Ray

male, deceased (1705)
vegetarian, Botanist, Scholastics, empiricism, Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, paleobotanist…Pre-Linnaean botanist
John Ray (November 29, 1627 - January 17, 1705) was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until...
Joseph Rock

Joseph Rock

male, deceased (1962)
linguistics, Salween, gansu, sichuan, yunnan, muli…Botanist
Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. He was born in Vienna, Austria but moved to...
De Jussieu

De Jussieu

male
sixteenth century, Botanist, J. P. de Tournefort, Christophe de Jussieu, Institutiones rei herbariae, Jardin du Roi
De Jussieu, the name of a French family which came into prominent notice towards the close of the sixteenth century, and for a century and a half...