Botanists
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson (April 7, 1727 - August 3, 1806) was a French naturalist of Scottish descent. He was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris in 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur a...
de Candolle, Alphonse
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle (Paris October 28, 1806 - Geneva April 4, 1893) was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist A. P. de Candolle. Early in his studies he devoted himself to law. He gradually drifted to botany and fi...
Aaronsohn, Aaron
Aaron Aaronsohn (1876-May 15, 1919) was a renowned Romanian-born Jewish agronomist, botanist, traveler, entrepreneur, and Zionist politician. He was born in Bacău, Romania, and brought Palestine, then part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, at the age o...