Robert Brown: Facts & Related Content

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Born December 21, 1773 • MontroseScotland
Died June 10, 1858 (aged 84) • LondonEngland
Title / Office Royal Society (1810)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1839)
Notable Works “A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations…”
Subjects Of Study angiospermgymnospermplantBrownian motionnucleustaxonomy

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Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
John Bartram
American naturalist
Robert Morison
Scottish botanist
David Douglas
Scottish botanist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Fairchild, David
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
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist

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