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  2. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle ( UK: / kænˈdɒl /, US: / kɒ̃ˈdɔːl /, French: [kɑ̃dɔl]; 4 February 1778 – 9 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium.

  3. Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (born February 4, 1778, Geneva—died September 9, 1841, Geneva) was a Swiss botanist who established scientific structural criteria for determining natural relations among plant genera. After Charles Darwin’s introduction of the principles of organic evolution, Candolle’s criteria provided the empirical ...

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  4. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle1778-1841 Swiss Botanist Augustin de Candolle is considered one of the most important botanists of the nineteenth century. His major contributions were in the fields of plant classification and morphology, the study of form, and in the geographical distribution of plants.

  5. May 23, 2018 · Augustin Pyrame de Candolle [1] (də käNdōl´), 1778–1841, Swiss botanist. Considered the most important Swiss botanist of his era, de Candolle wrote on a wide variety of botanical topics, from medical botany to philosophical treatises on plant morphology and systematics.

  6. Sep 9, 2017 · Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle was born on February 4, 1778 in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Augustin de Candolle, a banker and magistrate, and Louise-Eléonore Brière. He first studied medicine in Paris and graduated in 1804. He then studied biology with Georges Cuvier [ 5] and Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck [ 6] and worked for them.

  7. Sep 9, 2022 · Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle, a French botanist, died Sep. 9, 1841, at the age of 63. De Candolle is usually described as the greatest botanist in France in the first third of the... Scientist of the Day - Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle. September 9, 2022.

  8. Overview. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. (1778—1841) Swiss botanist. Quick Reference. (1778–1841) A Swiss botanist who studied in Geneva and settled in Paris in 1796. At the request of the French Government he conducted a botanical and agricultural survey of the whole of France, the results of which were published in 1813.

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