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Early life. Robert Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland on 21 December 1773, in a house that existed on the site where Montrose Library currently stands. He was the son of James Brown, a minister in the Scottish Episcopal Church with Jacobite convictions so strong that in 1788 he defied his church's decision to give allegiance to George III.
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Apr 28, 2024 · Robert Brown (born December 21, 1773, Montrose, Angus, Scotland—died June 10, 1858, London, England) was a Scottish botanist best known for his descriptions of cell nuclei and of the continuous motion of minute particles in solution, which came to be called Brownian motion. In addition, he recognized the fundamental distinction between ...
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Brown, Robert (1773-1858) Scottish botanist who made a number of scientific discoveries and travelled on the Flinders circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1805. His early plant collections in New Holland (Australia) earned Brown the distinction of being one of the fathers of Australian botany. Robert Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland, where ...
Mar 23, 2015 · Robert Brown (1773-1858) (born Montrose, Scotland 21 December 1773 - died at Soho Square, London, 10 June 1858) Acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. Studied medicine and joined the army as a sugeon in 1795. One of the scientists who accompanied Flinders on his historic ...
Dec 21, 2017 · Robert Brown, an English botanist, was born Dec. 21, 1773. Brown was the naturalist on the Flinders voyage to Australia, 1801-05, and he brought back a large number of new Australian plants. He got to know Sir Joseph Banks, who had been on Captain Cook’s voyage to Australia, 1769-71, and had returned with quite an Australian herbarium of his own. Banks evidently took a liking to Brown, for ...
Robert Brown (1773-1858), botanist, was born on 21 December 1773, the son of Rev. James Brown, an Episcopalian, and his wife Helen, née Taylor. He attended Montrose Academy, proceeded to Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland, as Ramsay scholar in 1787, moved with his family to Edinburgh in 1789 and studied medicine at the university.
Robert Brown. (1773–1858). Scottish botanist Robert Brown was born in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1773. He studied medicine at the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh and spent five years in the British army serving in Ireland as an ensign and assistant surgeon beginning in 1795. From 1801 to 1805 he served as a naturalist in an ...
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