jan 18, 1698 - Rober Brown A Scottish botanist, born in 1773. He died in 1858. Thanks to developments in microscopes, he was able to observe the inside of plant cells in more detail. Brown discovered that there was a structure in plant cells: he called it the “nucleus.” Scientists would later discover that this structure is present in all eukaryotic cells.
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