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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, professor at Uppsala University, who formalised the modern system of naming and classifying living things. His Systema Naturae of 1735 set out a hierarchical classification of nature, and his Species Plantarum of 1753 established the two-part Latin names, genus and species, still used for plants and animals.
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