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Jaques Étienne Gay (1786 in
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Jaques Étienne Gay (1786 in Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
– 1864) was a Swiss-French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist. His name is associated with plants in standardised botanical nomenclature, e.g. ''Crocus sieberi
''Crocus sieberi'', Sieber's crocus, also referred to as the Cretan crocus or snow crocus (as is ''Crocus chrysanthus''), is a plant of the genus ''Crocus'' in the family Iridaceae. A small, early blooming crocus, it easily naturalises, and is m ...
'' J.Gay. He was the most famous of the students of botanist Jean François Aimée Gaudin with whom he began collecting plants at the age of 14. He was married to Rosalie Nillion.
The botanical genus '' Gaya'' was named in his honour, as
well as the genus '' Neogaya'' belonging to the family Apiaceae
Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants ...
. Also the species '' Potamogeton gayi'' in 1892.
Publications
* Gay, Jacques Etienne. 1857. Recherches sur les caractères de la végétation du fraisier et sur la distribution géographique de ses espèces, avec la description de deux nouvelles. ''Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Botanique)'' 4th ser. 8: 185–208 * Gay, Jacques Etienne. 1821. ''Monographie des cinq genres de plantes que comprend la tribu des Lasiopetalées dans la famille des Buttneriacées.''Related pages
List of botanists by author abbreviation
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* Aa – Hubertus Antonius van der Aa (1935–2017)
* A.A.Cocucci – (born 1959)
* A.A.Eaton – Alvah Augustus Eaton (1865–1908)
* A.A.Fisch.Waldh. – Alexandr Alexandrovich Fischer von Waldheim (1839–1920)
* A.Agostini †...
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* Jacques Etienne Gay, in Spanish WikipediaWikispecies: Jacques Etienne Gay
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William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS (; 11 February 180017 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later ...
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Philip Barker Webb
Philip Barker Webb (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist.
Life
Webb was born to a wealthy, aristocratic family; his father was the lord of the manors of Witley and Milford, Surrey, Milford, in Surrey, England. Webb was e ...
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