Nehemiah Grew (* 26 September 1641 in Mancetter Parish, Warwickshire, England; "† 25. March 1712 in London) was an English Botaniker, physicist, and a physiologist.

Grew studied first philosophy at the University of Cambridge, then medicine at the University of suffering, where he was attained a doctorate to 1671 to the Dr. med. He worked after his study as a physician in Coventry, starting from 1672 in London. Starting from 1677 he was a secretary of the Royal Society in London.

Grew busy very successfully with the anatomy of the plants, it as Mikroskopiker admits itself made and ranks among the founders of plant anatomy. It recognized that plants from cells are developed. It differentiated parenchymatisches fabric from the longitudinal stretched fiber forms, described the genuine containers and the juice-prominent channels and proved (at the same time, however substantially more carefully than Marcello Malpighi) the pool of these fabric forms in the different organs of the plants. Also over the building of the spiral containers it had clearer conceptions.

With its microscope it examined also the reproduction organs of the plants and described the polling grains produced by them.

Grew in all other respects discovered that humans differ in their finger marks. For this it published 1684 the first work world-wide to this topic, whereby it described characteristic characteristics such as skin grooves, furrows, valleys and void structures of the finger marks.

Berne pool of broadcasting corporations de Jussieu designated Grew in honours a kind of the lime tree plants "„Grewia "“. The kind has numerous kinds, among them also fiber and ornamental plants as well as small fruits-basic bushes. Grewia is the species-richest kind of the lime tree plants with the spreading emphasis in Africa, Asia and Australia. Examples are:

• Grewia retusifolia - Emubeere
• Grewia Occidentalis - Lavendel

Works

• 1682: Anatomy OF plants (first text book of plant anatomy, also in French translation: Anatomy flat width unit (1675) appeared.

Sources

• Meyers encyclopedia 1888-1889
• Jahn: History of biology. Spectrum of 2000
• Farm servant woman: History of the Botanik. Fischer 1992

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