The French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789 – 1854) was born at 04.09.1789 in the capital of the southwestern French department Charente, Angoulême. He studied pharmacology, chemistry and herbology at Cognac and Angoulême. From 1817 to 1820 he was the serving botanist on a circumglobal expedition. In the year 1831 Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré sailed to South America [read more...]

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…