This group collects the Life Sciences subcategory's members whose defining work concerns botany: the classification, structure and physiology of plants and fungi, from the earliest plant classifiers who built the first systematic plant taxonomies to modern plant biologists and mycologists working on plant genetics and fungal biology. It is kept apart from Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, whose members study broader environmental interaction and evolutionary change across all of life rather than plant biology specifically.
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1. Botany (Wikipedia)
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Modern botany traces its roots back to Ancient Greece specifically to Theophrastus (c. 371-287 BCE), a student of Aristotle who invented and described many of its principles and is widely regarded in the scientific community as the "Father of Botany".
Joseph Dalton Hooker (Wikipedia)
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He was a founder of geographical botany
Hugo von Mohl (Wikipedia)
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he started in 1828 those anatomical investigations which continued until his death
Carl Nägeli (Wikipedia)
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In 1857, Nägeli first described microsporidia
Alexander von Bunge (Wikipedia)
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He is best remembered for scientific expeditions into Asia and especially Siberia
John Hutton Balfour (Wikipedia)
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Balfour was prominent in the foundation of both the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1836
Heinrich Göppert (Wikipedia)
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In 1831, he became a professor of botany, as well as curator of the botanical gardens in Breslau
Georg Heinrich Mettenius (Wikipedia)
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Mettenius was a leading authority in the field of pteridology
Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (Wikipedia)
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As a taxonomist, he was the binomial author of many botanical species
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