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We begin with the following summary based on Chandrasekhar (1943), Doob (1953), Gardiner (1983, 1990), and van Kampen (1981, 1992). Our story begins in 1826, 1827, or 1828 (references differ in the date) when Robert Brown studied what became known as Brownian motion. He first observed tiny pollen grains suspended in water that exhibited very agitated and irregular motion. He was a botanist so it was natural for him to wonder if this motion was characteristic of only organic life. He continued his work with suspensions of other kinds of fine particles, organic and inorganic, and observed the same phenomenon. He concluded that this motion is not organic in origin.
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Rodean, H.C. (1996). Historical Review. In: Stochastic Lagrangian Models of Turbulent Diffusion. Meteorological Monographs. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-11-9_2
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