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Feb 19, 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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Early life. Robert Brown was born in Montrose 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.
- Botany
- Brownian motion, Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen
Robert Brown (1773–1858) Robert Brown was a leading botanist in his era, very well respected for his excellence in science, and the naturalist on board the HMS Navigator on the historic Flinders voyage to Australia (New Holland) in 1801. The expedition collected over 4,000 botanical specimens, of which Brown classified 2,040 (published in his ...
Aug 6, 2004 · The Scottish botanist Robert Brown discovered it 180 years ago while studying orchids under a microscope. In his original paper, Brown called the novel cellular structure both an areola and a nucleus, but the latter name stuck. Now, as then, the organelle's complexity inspires awe.
- Elizabeth Pennisi
- 2004
Nov 21, 2023 · Robert Brown (1773-1858) was a Scottish botanist best known for his study and collection of thousands of plant specimens from Australia, description of plant cell nuclei, and observation of ...
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Mar 11, 2022 · In 1833, Robert Brown discovered the nucleus of the cell (basically, the house in our analogy). Hence, some cells had walls, others didn’t, but they all had jelly and they had a nucleus. This nucleus became very important to figure out how cells lived and died.
The Scottish botanist Robert Brown (1773–1858) was the first to recognize the nucleus (a term that he introduced) as an essential constituent of living cells (1831).
