The name osmosis comes from the earlier term osmose, introduced in 1854 by British chemist Thomas Graham. It was adopted to describe the spontaneous passage of water or other solvents through a semipermeable membrane. The process, important in biology, was later studied thoroughly in 1877 by German plant physiologist Wilhelm Pfeffer.
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