Massimo Pigliucci

Massimo Pigliucci

male, 45 years old (New York, United States)
Fact-value distinction, philosophical, Brights, methodological, Society for the Study of Evolution, ecology…botany, PhD in Botany
As professor of ecology and evolution, he does research and teaching at SUNY-Stony Brook when he is not pursuing his interests in philosophy of...
Asa Gray

Asa Gray

male, deceased (1888)
Harvard University, Botanist, taxonomy, botany, American, taxonomic
Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 - January 30,1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. He was instrumental in...
Robert Brown

Robert Brown

male, deceased (1858)
Mycologist, British, New Latin author, Botanical collectors active in Australia, herbarium, Naturalist…botany
Robert Brown (December 21, 1773-June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of...

Robert Brown

male, deceased (1895)
Scottish, university of edinburgh, Science writer, zoology, scientist, vancouver island…botany, Manual of Botany
Robert Brown, (1842 - 26 October 1895), was a Scottish scientist, explorer, and author. He was born in Campster, Caithness, and studied in the...

John Davidson

male, deceased (1970)
Botanist, Scottish, University of British Columbia, Canadian, botany, UBC Botanical Garden
John Davidson (1878 - 1970) was a notable Scottish-Canadian botanist. Born in Aberdeen, he worked at the University of Aberdeen (1893 - 1911)...
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

male, deceased (1943) (Alabama)
scientist, botany, slave, tuskegee university, slavery, American
George Washington Carver saved the South from an economic crisis and possible famine by inventing more than three hundred uses for the peanut, over...
Education: …Master of Science Degree bacterial botany and agriculture at , Master's Degree Botany at Iowa State University
Francis Darwin

Francis Darwin

male, deceased (1925)
Darwin-Wedgwood family, from Downe, English, British, botany, Biologist
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...
Henry Gleason

Henry Gleason

male, deceased (1975)
Botanist, Biologist, taxonomy, botany, Ecologist, American
Henry Allan Gleason (1882-1975) was a noted American ecologist, botanist, and taxonomist, most recognized for his endorsement of the...
Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

female, deceased (1943)
Writer-illustrator, writer, Conservation movement, children's books, botany, British children's writer
(Helen) Beatrix Potter was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, best known for her children's books, which featured...

John White

male, deceased (1832)
Botanist, British, botany, surgeon, botanical, English
John White (c. 1756 - 20 February 1832) was an English surgeon and botanical collector. White was the principal surgeon during the First Fleet to...