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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



... was born at Flinborough or Broughton in Lincolnshire. He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, called to the bar, and made a Serjeant in 1577. He tried Robert Brown, founder of the Brownists, as assistant judge on the Norfolk Circuit in 1581; in the same year he tried Campian, the Jesuit, on the Western Circuit. In both cases he expressed strong views as to the claims of the Established Church. He was promoted to the chiefship of ...
— State Trials, Political and Social - Volume 1 (of 2) • Various



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