Matching Pairs TaxonomistOnline version famous taxonomist by Lydia Malaver 1 John Ray 2 Carolus Linnaeus 3 Herbert Copeland 4 Robert Whitaker 5 Ernst Haeckel 6 Aristotle founded the five kingdom systems and elevated the FUNGI to kingdom status classified flowering plants monocot and dicot father of taxonomy. Developed BYNOMIAL NOMEMCLATURE championed kingdo PROTIST for nucleated mircroorganism first to classify living things in two plants (size) and animals (where they live) Introduce the monera kingdom and the term PHYLUM