Sweden: Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) 1707-1778. Portrait in oil by Alexander Roslin (1718-1793), 1775

Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature.

He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.

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