He was a Scottish botanist and a founder of the naturalist society in London. He is famous for his discoveries of Brownian motion, the cell nucleus, and the Australian flora. The genus Brunonia is named after him.
He was a French botanist and naturalist. He proposed a natural system of classification based on multiple characters and influenced Darwin and Candolle. The genus Adansonia, which includes the baobab trees, is named after him.
He was a German writer, poet, and polymath. He was also interested in botany and wrote several works on plant morphology and metamorphosis. The genus Goethea is named after him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He was an English botanist and patron of science. He accompanied Cook on his first voyage and collected thousands of plants from the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand. He was the president of the Royal Society for over 40 years. The genus Banksia is named after him.
She was a German-born naturalist and illustrator. She was one of the first entomologists and one of the first to depict insects in their natural habitats. She travelled to Suriname and documented the flora and fauna there. The genus Meriania is named after her.