Jacob Bigelow
1787
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1879
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: botanist, poet, university teacher, physician, herpetologist
award received: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jacob Bigelow (February 27, 1787 – January 10, 1879) was an American physician, botanist and botanical illustrator. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts (in which he is interred), husband to Mary Scollay, and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow. The standard author abbreviation Bigelow is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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