Robert Brown

Robert Brown

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Brown has received more than 102,153 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Robert Brown is the 20th most popular biologist (up from 46th in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 448th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Biologist.

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