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Robert Brown   /rˈɑbərt braʊn/   Listen
Robert Brown

noun
1.
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858).  Synonym: Brown.






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"Robert Brown" Quotes from Famous Books



... marked by the concentric lines of the bark (I have specimens); 11 are perfectly silicified and resemble the dicotyledonous wood which I have found at Chiloe and Concepcion (6/2. "Geol. Obs." page 202. Specimens of the silicified wood were examined by Robert Brown, and determined by him as coniferous, "partaking of the characters of the Araucarian tribe, with some curious points of affinity with the yew."); the others (30-40) I only know to be trees from the ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... Martyr. Henry Bullinger. John Knox. John Calvin. Jerome Zanchius. Theodore Beza. Leo X. Justin. Arius. Athanasius. Moses Maimonides. John Agricola. Michael Servetus. Simonis Menno. Francis Xavier. Faustus Socinus. Robert Brown. James Arminius. Francis Higginson. Richard Baxter. George Fox. William Penn. Benedict Spinoza. Ann Lee. John Glass. George Keith. Nicholas Louis, Count Zinzendorf. William Courtney. Richard Hooker. Charles Chauncey. Roger Williams. John Clarke. Ann Hutchinson. Michael Molinos. ...
— The Book of Religions • John Hayward



Words linked to "Robert Brown" :   brown, plant scientist, phytologist, botanist



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