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nouna biologist specializing in the study of plants
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- brown Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
- banks English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
- gray United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
- carver United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)
- cohn German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
- mendel Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)
- linnaeus Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)
- mycologist a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi
- sir joseph banks English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
- hugo devries Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)