2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), a notable Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician. Linnaeus's passion for order saw him develop a standardised binomial ...

Carl Linnaeus is considered to be the father of modern taxonomy. He developed a hierarchical system of classification that is still used today, which is based on similarities in physical ...

In memory of Carl Linnaeus I would like to address the question of how European scholarship has developed in Japan, touching upon the work of people such as Carl Peter Thunberg, Linnaeus's disciple ...

The tenth edition of Systema Naturae (1758) was (and is) the most important, because Linnaeus first employed the binomial system of nomenclature in zoology. He classified organisms from broad grouping ...

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 ...

Carl Linnaeus developed the Latin two-word system for organising the natural world that is still in use today, writes ENDA O'DOHERTY The botanist Carolus Linnaeus was born Carl Nilsson Linnaeus in ...

Two recent calamities, geographically distanced, began in the death of trees. A landslide annihilated two villages of Wayanad district in Kerala. Two oceans west, in Brazil, a new viral disease ...