Aristotle
John Ray
Herbert Copeland
Ernst Haeckel
Carolus Linnaeus
Robert Whitaker
father of taxonomy. Developed BYNOMIAL NOMEMCLATURE
championed kingdo PROTIST for nucleated mircroorganism
Introduce the monera kingdom and the term PHYLUM
classified flowering plants monocot and dicot
first to classify living things in two plants (size) and animals (where they live)
founded the five kingdom systems and elevated the FUNGI to kingdom status