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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Piet Hein, Ole Romer, Agner Krarup Erlang, Hans Christian Gram, Emil Christian Hansen, Rasmus Bartholin, Inge Lehmann, Eugenius Warming, Tyge W. Bocher, Uffe Ravnskov, Rasmus Malling-Hansen, Olaf Hagerup, Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Carsten Olsen, Carl Hansen Ostenfeld, Peter Laut, Sophia Brahe, Eigil Friis-Christensen, Anders Krogh, Henrik I. Christensen, Ole Worm, Jan Mohr, Lene Hau, Lasse Hessel, Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen, Klaus Bechgaard, Thorvald Sorensen, Christian Bohr, Frederik Borgesen, Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang, Hans Peter Jorgen Julius Thomsen, Theo Holm, Willi Dansgaard, Niels A. Lassen, Lars Knudsen, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Emil Rostrup, Peter Faber, Ivan Damgard, Moustapha Kassem, Steen Willadsen, Erik Viborg, Georges Dreyer, Ole Borch, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Bent Formby, C.G. Johannes Petersen, Dorte Juul Jensen, Steen Rasmussen, Carl Wesenberg-Lund, Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge, Hans Eiberg, Svend Lomholt, Karl Albert Hasselbalch, Hans Ussing. Excerpt: Johannes Eugenius Bulow Warming (November 3, 1841 - April 2, 1924), known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology. Warming wrote the first textbook (1895) on plant ecology, taught the first university course in ecology and gave the concept its meaning and content. "If one individual can be singled out to be honoured as the founder of ecology, Warming should gain precedence." Warming wrote a number of textbooks on botany, plant geography and ecology, which were translated to several languages and were immensely influential at their time and later. Most important were Plantesamfund and Haandbog i den systematiske Botanik. Warming was born on the small Wadden Sea island of Mando as the only child of Jens Warming (1797-1844), parish minister, and Anna Marie von Bulow af Pluskow (1...
