Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) was a Swedish botanist who devised the binomial classification system, a two-part naming system to identify, classify and name organisms from bacteria to elephant. Carl ...

Robyn Williams: Classification of animals and plants is essential for biological science to work. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus adopted the use of binomial names. He will be 300 on the 23rd May ...

Carl Linnaeus, today a largely unknown figure, is one of the giants of natural science, having devised the formal two-part naming system we use to classify all life forms. This system is known as The ...

Ever wondered how plants get their names? Well, we gardeners can thank a brilliant 18th-century Swedish botanist and zoologist by the name of Carl Linnaeus for the birth of modern plant taxonomy, ...

But in the 1730s, the self-proclaimed “prince of botany” made a contribution to taxonomy that, at the time, was just as profound as any of his other achievements. After realizing that floral sex parts ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this talk Dr John Carmody, a physiologist from the University of New South Wales, pays tribute to ...

There are places on the moon named after him. His face appears on Swedish currency, and an era of scientific history bears his name. But Carl Linnaeus is best known for creating the system of ...