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Nicolás Joseph Jacquin

Nicolás Joseph Jacquin
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Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a natural philosopher who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. He travelled to the West Indies as part of an Austrian expedition and collected a large number of botanical specimens and described many species.

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  1. Vasily ChichagovMarch 11, 1726 – April 16, 1809
  2. Michel AdansonApril 7, 1727 – August 3, 1806
  3. Nicolás Joseph Jacquin (this page)February 16, 1727 – October 1817
  4. Philibert CommersonNovember 18, 1727 – 1773
  5. James CookOctober 27, 1728 – February 14, 1779
  6. Samuel WallisApril 23, 1728 – January 21, 1795

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