Robert Brown: Quick Facts


Facts

Born December 21, 1773 • Montrose • Scotland
Died June 10, 1858 (aged 84) • London • England
Title / Office Royal Society (1810)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1839)
Notable Works “A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations…”
Subjects Of Study angiosperm • gymnosperm • plant • Brownian motion • nucleus • taxonomy

Photos


Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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John Bartram
American naturalist
David Douglas
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
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Robert Morison
Scottish botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
Title page of Flora Boreali-Americana by Andre Michaux (1746-1802), printed in 1803,
André Michaux
French botanist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
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August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
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Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist