1773–1858 British botanist and explorer, who also observed the cell nucleus and ‘Brownian motion’.
Keywords: botany; microscopic; brownian motion
Brown, Robert
Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002374
| Further Reading | |
| Brown R (1828) A brief account of microscopical observations made in the months of June, July and August 1827 on the particles contained in the pollen of plants; and on the general existence of active molecules in organic and inorganic bodies. Edinburgh New Philosophical Magazine 4: 161–173. | |
| book Mabberley DJ (1985) Jupiter Botanicus. Robert Brown of the British Museum. Braunschweig: Verlag von Cramer. | |
| book Stearn WT (1960) "Introduction". In: Robert Brown (ed.) Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae van-Diemen, facsimile edition, pp. v–lii. Weinheim: J. Cramer. | |
