ROBERT BROWN LIFE HISTORY/CONTRIBUTIONS OF SCIENTIST

 ROBERT BROWN (1773-1858) 

Robert Brown was a Scottish Botanist. He was a well known botanist. He found the tiny particles of Pollen Grains moving in zig-zag in water. He found that the pollen grains moved in zig-zag patch. They were being kicked by moving molecules of water. The motion is also visible in the particles of  smoke suspended in a still gas. (Smoke consists of tiny particles of solid suspended in air)

BIRTH : 21 December 1773

DEAD : 10 June 1858

PARENTS : Helen Taylor and James Brown

WELL KNOWN FOR : Brownian motion

FIELD : Botany

BOOKS : The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown (1866) ; General view of botany of the vicinity of swan river (1831) ; Observation, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo (1818)

BIRTH PLACE : Montrose, United Kingdom

DEATH PLACE : Soho Square, London, United Kingdom

NATIONALITY : British, Scottish

AWARDS : Copley medal

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