Nehemiah Grew

Botanist, Academic

1641 – 1712

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Who was Nehemiah Grew?

Nehemiah Grew was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, very famously known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy".

Grew was the only son of Obadiah Grew, Nonconformist divine and vicar of St Michaels, Coventry, and was born in Warwickshire. He graduated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1661, and ten years later took the degree of M.D. at Leiden University, his thesis being Disputatio medico-physica de liquore nervoso. He began observations on the anatomy of plants in 1664, and in 1670 his essay, The Anatomy of Vegetables begun, was communicated to the Royal Society by Bishop Wilkins, on whose recommendation he was in the following year elected a fellow. In 1672, when the essay was published, he settled in London, and soon acquired an extensive practice as a physician. In 1673 he published his Idea of a Phytological History, which consisted of papers he had communicated to the Royal Society in the preceding year, and in 1677 he succeeded Henry Oldenburg as secretary of the society. He edited the Philosophical Transactions in 1678-1679, and in 1681 he published by request a descriptive catalogue of the rarities preserved at Gresham College, with which were printed some papers he had read to the Royal Society on the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts.

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Born
Sep 26, 1641
Warwickshire
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Nationality
  • England
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Education
  • Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Leiden University
Died
Mar 25, 1712
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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