Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (died 1778)

Carl Linnaeus

Swedish biologist and physician (1707–1778)

Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name…