1806-1893 Swiss botanist who took on the task of completing his father Augustin de Candolle's multi-volume work on plant classification called the Prodromus. Alphonse Candolle was president of the International Botanical Congress in 1866 and in...

Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle (Paris October 28, 1806 – Geneva April 4, 1893), was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist A. P. de Candolle. He first devoted himself to the study of law, but gradually drifted to botany...