What is Robert Brown?
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Use British English|date=July 2011}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix=[[The Right Honourable]] | name = Robert Brown | honorific_suffix=[[Fellow of the Royal Society of London|FRS]] [[FRSE]] [[Fellow of the Linnean Society of London|FLS]] [[Member of the Wernerian Society|MWS]]. | image = Robert brown botaniker.jpg | caption = Portrait by [[Henry William Pickersgill]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1773|12|21}} | birth_place = [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]], Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1858|6|10|1773|12|21}} | death_place = [[London]], England | field = [[Botany]] | awards = Fellow of the [[Linnean Society of London|Linnean Society]], foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], foreign member of the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]], Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] | alma_mater = [[University of Aberdeen]] [[University of Edinburgh]] | known_for = [[Brownian motion]], ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen'' | author_abbrev_bot = '''R.Br.''' | workplaces = [[British Museum]] }} '''Robert Brown''' [[FRS]] FRSE [[FLS]] (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[botanist]]. Brown made important contributions to [[botany]] by using the [[microscope]]. He made an early description of the [[cell nucleus]] and [[cytoplasmic streaming]]. He saw [[Brownian motion]] in [[pollen grain]]s.<ref>Harris, Henry 1999. ''The Birth of the Cell''. Yale University Press. pp. 76–81. ISBN 9780300073843</ref> He did early work on plant [[pollination]] and [[fertilisation]].<ref>Mabberley, David 1985. ''Jupiter botanicus: Robert Brown of the British Museum''. British Museum (Natural History). pp. 15–18. ISBN 978-3-7682-1408-7</ref> Brown was the first to list the difference between [[gymnosperms]] and [[angiosperms]]. He did some of the earliest studies in [[palynology]]. He worked on plant [[taxonomy]]. He identified plant families which are still ac