Robyn Williams: Classification of animals and plants is essential for biological science to work. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus adopted the use of binomial names. He will be 300 on the 23rd May ...

The essential scientific practice of naming and classifying natural organisms owes its roots to the vision and work of Swedish biologist and physician Carl Linnaeus. Born to a curate named Nils ...

But in the 1730s, the self-proclaimed “prince of botany” made a contribution to taxonomy that, at the time, was just as profound as any of his other achievements. After realizing that floral sex parts ...

There are places on the moon named after him. His face appears on Swedish currency, and an era of scientific history bears his name. But Carl Linnaeus is best known for creating the system of ...

Ever wondered how plants get their names? Well, we gardeners can thank a brilliant 18th-century Swedish botanist and zoologist by the name of Carl Linnaeus for the birth of modern plant taxonomy, ...

Carl Linnaeus, today a largely unknown figure, is one of the giants of natural science, having devised the formal two-part naming system we use to classify all life forms. This system is known as The ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this talk Dr John Carmody, a physiologist from the University of New South Wales, pays tribute to ...

Safe to say that without Carl Linnaeus, we wouldn't have the term 'homo sapiens'. The 18th-century Swedish botanist is credited with inventing binomial nomenclature, the system of naming and grouping ...

Without a wife and a well-functioning household, Carl Linnaeus would have had difficulty becoming the prominent scientist that he was. Mastering social codes, like clothing and hosting guests for ...