biologist, life scientist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

mycologist - a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi

propagator - someone who propagates plants (as under glass)

Banks, Sir Joseph Banks - English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)

Robert Brown, Brown - Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

Carver, George Washington Carver - United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)

Cohn, Ferdinand Julius Cohn - German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants

Curtis, William Curtis - English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)

De Vries, deVries, Hugo De Vries, Hugo deVries - Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)

Asa Gray, Gray - United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Jussieu - French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)

Carl von Linne, Carolus Linnaeus, Karl Linne, Linnaeus - Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)

Gregor Mendel, Johann Mendel, 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)

John Tradescant, Tradescant - English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)