Bolòs i Capdevila, Oriol de
Olot, Garrotxa 1924 - Barcelona 2007

Botanist. He obtained a degree in Natural Sciences at University of Barcelona (1947) and a PhD in 1950 with a dissertation on the vegetation in Montseny (Catalonia). He was a student and later collaborator of Josias Braun-Blanquet, and he introduced the sigmatist methodology for the study of vegetation in Catalonia.

Bolòs i Vayreda, Antoni de
Olot 1889 - Barcelona 1975

Pharmacist, botanist. In 1934 he started to take care of the plants and herbs books from the Institut Botànic de Barcelona, he became director of the Institut Botànic in 1939 and later he was chosen as the director of the Instituto Municipal de Ciencias Naturales.

Cadevall i , Joan
Castellgalí 1846 - Terrassa 1921

Educator, botanist. Characterized by his modesty, Joan Cadevall who "did not aspire that his name could one day appear next to those of Costa, Trèmols, Vayreda..., all worthy scientists; would have been satisfied that it appeared after them, at a respectful distance...", as explained by Pius Font i Quer on the long obituary he dedicated to him, became one of the leading scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Catalonia.

Cardona i Florit, Mª Àngels
Ciutadella, Menorca 1940 - Barcelona 1991

Botanist. She was an open minded person who tried to improve the modern science introducing the newest advances.

Casas i Sicart, Creu
Barcelona 1913 - Bellaterra 2007

Botanist. Professor Emeritus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, was the first woman admitted as a member of the Institut d´Estudis Catalans, Section of Biological Sciences (l978) and President of the Institució Catalana d´Història Natural (1980-81), affiliated Society of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. She was also member of the Reial Acadèmia de Farmàcia de Catalunya.

Costa i Cuixart, Antoni Cebriá
València 1817 - Barcelona 1886

Botanist. He was graduated in Medicine and Surgery in the Real College of Surgery of Barcelona in 1843. He studied, among other places, in the School of Agriculture and Botany of the Meeting of Trade. In 1854 he was licensed in philosophy, section of Natural Sciences, in the University of Barcelona, where he was already a teacher.

Cuatrecasas i Arumí, Josep
Camprodon, Ripollès 1903 - Washington (EUA) 1996

Botanist. He finished his pharmacy studies in the University of Barcelona where he became a teacher of botany between 1924 and 1930, he got his Ph.D. degree in Madrid in 1928. He extended his studies in the University of Géneve and in the botanical Institute of Berlin-Dahlem. He contributed to the knowledge of the Spanish plants with his thesis Estudios sobre la flora y la vegetación del macizo de Mágina (1929).

Font i Quer, Pius
Lleida 1888 - Barcelona 1964

Pharmacist, botanist, chemist. He finished chemistry studies in Barcelona (1908) and got his Ph.D. degree of pharmacy in 1914 in Madrid. In 1917 he became Professor of botany in the faculty of pharmacy at the Universitat de Barcelona (1917-1922),

Garganta i Fàbrega, Miquel de
Olot (Garrotxa) 1903 - Olot (Garrotxa) 1988

Botanist. Botanist and historian of the Botany. He was graduated in Pharmacy in the University of Barcelona in 1927 and he got his PhD in Madrid in 1936. He was disciple of Antoni of Bolòs, Pius Font i Quer and Josep Cuatrecasas.

Huguet i Serratacó, Emili (Huguet del Villar)
Granollers, Vallès Oriental 1871 - Rabat 1951

Geographer, pedologist, botanist. He was known as Huguet del Villar. When he was young he travelled around Latin America, when he came back, in 1900, he started his geographic and naturalist studies. 

Martí i Franquès, Antoni
Altafulla 1750 - Tarragona 1832

Botanist. Botanist. Son of a noble landowner family in Altafulla, of the ancestral home of Ardenya, he was also known as Martí of Ardenya. Although he studied for two years at the University of Cervera, between 14 and 16 years of age, historians agree that he was an autodidact. Passionate for botany and chemistry, his father's liberalism and the stability of the family's finances allowed him to devote time to his studies.

Montserrat i Recoder, Pere
Mataró 1918 - Jaca 2017

Botanist, ecologist.