Johann Georg Gmelin
1709–55
German botanist, naturalist, and explorer. Professor of chemistry and natural history at the Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, 1731–47. Professor of botany and chemistry at Tübingen University, 1749.
Sources
DSB
NDB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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