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Carl Linnaeus
1707 – 1778Binomial nomenclature: every species on Earth still carries his two-name system.
Sweden·Biology
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749 – 1832A poet who also did serious science, and defined what a modern European is.
Germany·Literature · Biology · PhilosophyFull profile
Alexander von Humboldt
1769 – 1859Invented the idea that nature is a single connected web — and that we can wreck it.
Germany·Biology · Astronomy · HistoryFull profile