Prospero Alpini
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Venetian physician and botanist
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Prospero Alpini's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Padua
Why Is Prospero Alpini Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. The ginger-family genus Alpinia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.
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