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​​ Carl Linnaeus May 23, 1707~January 10, 1778 Carl Linnaeus was born in Smaland, Sweden.
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Carl Linnaeus was a naturalist, botanist, and physician. A natrualist is a scientist who study's nature. A botanist is a scienctist who study's botany, which is studying shells, insects, and plants. He was also a physican which is a docter.
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~Carl Linnaeus was known as: · "Father of Classification" · “Father of Systematic Botany” · "Prince of Botanist" ~As the father of classification, he came up with a system to classify or name many plants, insects, and shells. His classification system was a scientific one. · It is a binomial or “two-name” system. This means that each plant or animal has a name with two Latin words. · <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The first name is the genus and the second is the species. ~He had many students in his classes that he taught at the University of Uppsala that would travel the world, teaches system of classification, and find new plants, insects, and shells. ". He was known for his great studies as a botanist.
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<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Carl Linnaeus discovered many plants, insects and shells. He made a classification system to name them. The classification is still used today.
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<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msospacerun: yes;"> **<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Career: **<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Studied medicine at the University of Uppsala beginning in 1728. <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Won an appointment as lecturer in botany. <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Published in ‘Flora Lapponica' in 1737. <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Obtained doctor's degree in medicine at the University in Holland. <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Published ‘Systema naturae’ (System of Nature) and ‘Genera plantarum' (Species of Plants). <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Medical Practice in Stockholm. <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In 1742 he was appointed as Chair of Botany at the University of Uppsala.

<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ~Although his father, a curate, wanted his boy to follow in his footsteps, Carl was interested in plants and animals. He was nicknamed “the little botanist”. ~He discovered how to make a pearl by adding a piece of limestone on a string into a mussel and letting it sit for 6 years. At the end it made a large pearl and the government paid him $2000 for the idea. <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">~Academy of Sciences of Uppsala sent him on a 5,000-mile (8,000-kilometer) botanical survey of Lapland. <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> -Anderson, Margaret J. //Great Minds of Science CARL LINNAEUS Father of Classification.// Berleley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1997. Print.
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-Broberg, Gunnar. "Linnaeus, Carl." Reader's Guide to the History of Science (Jan. 2000): 417. Science Reference Center. EBSCO. 8 Sep. 2009 <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

<span style="color: #0078ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15pt; text-align: left;">-Anderson, Margaret J. //Great Minds of Science CARL LINNAEUS Father of Classification.// Berleley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1997. Print.

-Getty Images. "Carl Linnaeus" EbscoHost-Carl Linnaeus. Getty Images. Web. September 23, 2009. <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">-"Linnaeus, Carolus." Compton's by Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 8 Sept. 2009