de Jussieu, Antoine‐Laurent

Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

Published online: May 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002409

1748–1836 French botanist, founding father of modern plant classification schemes.

Keywords: botany; classification

 Further Reading
    book de Jussieu AL (1797) Elements de botanique, ou methode pour connaître les plantes. Lyon: Bernuset.
    book de Jussieu AL (1789) Genera Plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita. Paris: Herissant and Barrois.
    book Stevens PF (1994) The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature and the Natural System. New York: Columbia University Press.

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Browne, Janet(May 2001) de Jussieu, Antoine‐Laurent. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002409]