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Robert Brown

1773 - 1858

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Robert Brown (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation of Brownian motion; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms; and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today; and numerous Australian plant genera and species, the fruit of his exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders. The standard author abbreviation R.Br. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Brown is the 14th most popular biologist (up from 21st in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 223rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Biologist.

Robert Brown is most famous for his discovery of Brownian motion.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Brown ranks 14 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, Karl Landsteiner, and Robert Edwards. After him are Georges Cuvier, George Beadle, Alfred Russel Wallace, Macfarlane Burnet, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and Élie Metchnikoff.

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Among people born in 1773, Robert Brown ranks 3. Before him are Louis Philippe I, and Klemens von Metternich. After him are Thomas Young, William Henry Harrison, Friedrich Mohs, Ludwig Tieck, Louis I of Etruria, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, Aimé Bonpland, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi. Among people deceased in 1858, Robert Brown ranks 2. Before him is Rani of Jhansi. After him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Robert Owen, John Snow, Hiroshige, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johannes Peter Müller, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Karl Thomas Mozart, Matthew C. Perry, and Anton Diabelli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Brown ranks 179 out of 8,785. Before him are Jeremy Bentham (1748), Mark Knopfler (1949), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), and Aldous Huxley (1894). After him are Mary Boleyn (1499), Henry Purcell (1659), Betty Williams (1943), Elton John (1947), Robert Clive (1725), and Bon Scott (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Brown ranks 5. Before him are Charles Darwin (1809), Alexander Fleming (1881), Rosalind Franklin (1920), and Robert Edwards (1925). After him are Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), John Sulston (1942), Francis Crick (1916), John Edward Gray (1800), and Christian de Duve (1917).

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