Genus Neorosea

La. neo = new. For Valentin Rose the Younger (1762–1807), German apothecary and pharmacologist, son of the discoverer of the lowmelting alloy Rose’s metal, Valentin Rose the Elder (1736–1771). After Rose the Elder died, his sons were educated by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817), who also looked after Rose the Elder’s business for nine years. Klaproth made many brilliant contributions to analytical and mineralogical chemistry and became the first professor of chemistry at the University of Berlin. Rose the Younger collaborated with him in his research and verified all his analyses before publication. Rose the Younger was the first person to demonstrate the presence of chromium in serpentine soils.