Hipólito Ruiz López, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish botanist (1754-1816)
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Place of Birth: Belorado, Castile and León, Spain
About Hipólito Ruiz López
- Hipólito Ruiz López (August 8, 1754 in Belorado, Burgos, Spain – 1816 in Madrid), or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788.
- During the reign of Carlos III, three major botanical expeditions were sent to the New World; Ruiz and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez were the botanists for the first of these expeditions, to Peru and Chile.
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