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Who is known as the father of taxonomy, who developed our modern system of naming organisms?

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Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms.
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