Father taught mathematics and theology at Uppsala before becoming Bishop of Vasteras. Father built the first modest garden in local cathedral.

Was Uppsala's Professor of Medicine.

Founder of the Uppsala Botanic Garden in Sweden.

First Discovered the Lymph System in 1651.

Botanist

Physician

Philosopher

Olof Rudbeck (the Younger)

Utrecht, Sweden

1690

Professor of Botany at Uppsala.

Rudbeckia, Flower named by Linne for his mentor.

Botanist

Biologist

Carl Nilsson Linne (Linnaeus)

Uppsala, Sweden

1731

Introduced the modern biological system of kingdoms, classes, genera, and species.

Personal Physician to the Royal Swedish Family

Botanist

Entomologist

MD