William Hallowes Miller
See also: Miller
William Hallowes Miller , born on April 6th 1801 with Velindre, close to Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, deceased on May 20th 1880, was mineralogist and crystallographer.
He studied with St John' S College of Cambridge where he obtained his diploma in 1826.
During a few years, it occupied the function of “ college tutor ” which enabled him to write treaties of Hydrostatique and Hydrodynamique.
In 1832, it took the station of William Whewell as professor of Minéralogie, station which it occupied until in 1870.
It was named member of the royal Company of London in 1838.
It acquired a certain notoriety in the erudite world of its time by interesting reports, inserted in the Philosophical Transactions , in particular: On the crystals found out of slags , On the crystals , On the boric acid , On the position of the axes of optical elasticity in the crystals , On the false rainbows , To the types of the weights and measures, etc
One owes him a remelted edition of the elementary Introduction to mineralogy of W. Philips (1852).
Its principal work, Crystallography , were published in 1838. In 1852, it produced a new edition of the “ Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy ” of H.J. Brooke. In 1843, it took part in the committee charged to supervise the development of new standards length and weight (see Phil. Trans., 1856).
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