Abstract
Brownian motion was first observed by Brown (1828): he recognized that the motion of “molecules” , of size of 10-3 cm, of a pollen in a solution (“colloid”) was not due to internal causes, as it was believed at the time, but it had a mechanical (unknown) origin. It was in fact observable by looking at particles of comparable size and of any material, both organic and inorganic.
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Gallavotti, G. (1999). Brownian Motion. In: Statistical Mechanics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03952-6_8
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