Robert Brown

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Asa Gray, 19th-century lithograph.

Asa Gray: The Father of American Botany

Macro image of pollen-covered bee on purple crocus. (flowers, stamen, pollination, insects, nature)

5 Fast Facts About Flower Anatomy

Anemone coronaria, the poppy anemone, Spanish marigold, or windflower, is a species of flowering plant.

What’s the Difference Between Angiosperms and Gymnosperms?

Sunlight shining on leaves. Photosynthesis

What Does Photosynthesis Produce?

Frost. Frost point. Hoarfrost. Winter. Ice. Blackberry plant. Thorn. Hoarfrost on blackberry thorns.

Botanical Barbarity: 9 Plant Defense Mechanisms

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Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

Pro and Con: School Uniforms

Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics

10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)

11 Banned Books Through Time

Thanksgiving Turkey with all the sides

Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Robert Brown: Facts & Related Content

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Born	December 21, 1773 • Montrose • Scotland
Died	June 10, 1858 (aged 84) • London • England
Title / Office	Royal Society (1810)
Awards And Honors	Copley Medal (1839)
Notable Works	“A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations…”
Subjects Of Study	angiosperm • gymnosperm • plant • Brownian motion • nucleus • taxonomy

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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart

French botanist

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

Augustin Pyrame de Candolle

Swiss 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

Quiz

trees deciduous and coniferous. trees grow on a bank of a forest in springtime in Alberta, British Columbia, Canada. logging, forestry, wood, lumber, wilderness

All Things Green Quiz

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

Faces of Science