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Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)
historian, environmentalist, biographer, naturalist
- University of Iowa, University of Utah
Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828)
botanist, explorer, pteridologist, bryologist, zoologist, ornithologist, physician, lepidopterist, mycologist, philosopher, naturalist
- Uppsala University
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
naturalist, astrologer, protestant theologian, mathematician, astronomer, musicologist, physicist, cosmologist, music theorist, philosopher, teacher, inventor
- University of Tübingen, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Georg Forster (1754-1794)
explorer, anthropologist, ethnologist, pteridologist, librarian, translator, ornithologist, revolutionary, biologist, botanist, journalist, entomologist, mycologist, autobiographer, naturalist, art historian, geographer, traveler, scientific explorer
- Saint Peter's School
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
geologist, paleontologist, racial theorist, zoologist, glaciologist, physician, biologist, philosopher, botanist, ichthyologist, climatologist, naturalist
- University of Zurich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838)
botanist, poet, pteridologist, bryologist, naturalist, zoologist, explorer, curator, botanical collector, military officer
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Französisches Gymnasium Berlin
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975)
evolutionary biologist, geneticist, zoologist, academic, entomologist, biologist, naturalist, population geneticist
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Columbia University
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915)
entomologist, poet, botanist, naturalist, high school teacher, secondary school professor, curator