Olof Peter Swartz (1760-1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He studied at the University of Uppsala under Carl Linnaeus the Younger, son of the famous Carolus Linnaeus, where he got his doctorate in 1781. In 1780 started to travel and collected about 6000 specimens. In the year 1786 he went to London, where …

Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand was born at 12.08.1932
in Bangkok , Thailand. While she studied at a music academy in Paris,
Queen Sirikit met His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej

Johannes Jacobus Smith (1867-1947) was a Dutch Botanist. In the year 1891 Johannes Jacobus Smith became assistant curator at the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia…

Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942) wasn´t a botanist, as he was an Irish medical doctor. A. F.G. Kerr was an orchid lover and grew native Thai orchids in his home…

Elmer Drew Merrill (1876-1956) was an American Botanist specialized in the plants of South East Asia. In 1898 Elmer Drew Merrill received the Bachelor of Science at the University of Maine…

Professor Dr. Tem Smitinand (1920-1995) was a Thai botanist from the Royal Forest Department of Thailand…

Joseph Decaisne (1807 – 1882) was born in Brussels, Belgium, but was working as a French botanist and agronomist exclusively in Paris.
In 1824 Decaisne started as a gardener at the French Museum of natural history…

William Jackson Hooker (1785 – 1865) an English Botanist was educated at the high school of Norwich.
As he came from a wealthy family, William Jackson Hooker wa able to travel and start on studies of natural history…

Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846 – 1906) was a German botanist. In the year 1872 Pfitzer became professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in Heidelberg (Germany)…

Charles Samuel Pollock Parish (1822 – 1897) wasn´t a botanist, but invaluable for the orchidologists of that time John Lindley and Joseph Dalton Hooker…