Joseph Banks

Joseph Banks

male, deceased (1820)
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (13 February 1743 - 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and science patron. He took part in Cook's...
Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel

male, deceased (1884) (Guadeloupe)
Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884) was a Moravian Augustinian priest and scientist often called the "father of modern genetics"...
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

male, deceased (1943) (Alabama)
George Washington Carver saved the South from an economic crisis and possible famine by inventing more than three hundred uses for the peanut, over...
Employment: assistant botanist - , first African American scientist, artist -
Hans Sloane

Hans Sloane

male, deceased (1753)
Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. was an Ulster-Scot physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the British nation which became the...
Pehr Kalm

Pehr Kalm

male, deceased (1779)
Pehr Kalm (March 6 1716 - November 16 1779) (in Finland also known as Pietari Kalm and in some English-language translations as Peter Kalm) was a...
William Watson

William Watson

male, deceased (1787)
William Watson (3 April 1715 - 10 May 1787) was an English physician and scientist who was born and died in London. His early work was in botany,...
Rembert Dodoens

Rembert Dodoens

male, deceased (1585)
Rembert Dodoens (Mechelen June 29, 1517 - Leyden March 10, 1585) was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name...
Julius von Sachs

Julius von Sachs

male, deceased (1897)
Julius von Sachs, German botanist, was born in Breslau, Silesia. At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, and on leaving school he...
Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian

female, deceased (1717)
Anna Maria Sibylla Merian (born April 2, 1647 in Frankfurt - died January 13, 1717 in Amsterdam) was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who...
Matthias Jakob Schleiden

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

male, deceased (1881)
Matthias Jakob Schleiden (April 5, 1804 - June 23, 1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory. He was born in Hamburg, Germany....
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