Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (May 10th 1826 - March 9th 1908) is a geologist and specialist in British Microscopie .
It is born in Woodbourne close to Sheffield. It is interested early in the Natural history and one of its first articles refers to the excavations in the valleys Yorkshire.
It continues by a study of the mineral rocks and with the Microscope and publishes off an important report One the Microscopical Structure Hooks -- Of the microscopic structures of the crystals -- in 1858. It is one of the pioneers of the Pétrographie to the the United Kingdom and the Geological Society off London decrees the to him Médaille Wollaston in 1869. During its presidency of this Learned society it publishes the results of a search on the structure and the origin of layers Calcaire S and of rocks not limestones. Limestone S, and off the non-calcareous stratified rock'n'rolls --> He is prize winner of the Royal Medal in 1874.
During its presidency of the Royal Microscopical Society he writes on the construction and the use of the microphone Spectroscope S for the study of the colors of biological materials animal and vegetable. In its last tests he studies subjects varied such as the structure of the Fer and the Acier or the temperature of water in the Estuaire S.
He carries out also preparations of animals Invertébré S for plates of Magic lantern. In 1882 he becomes president of the Firth College with Sheffield.
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June 11th 1857 -->
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