William Hallowes Miller
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| Awards | Royal Medal (1870) |
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| Fields | Mineralogy Crystallography |
Prof William Hallowes Miller
mineralogist and laid the foundations of modern crystallography.[1]
Miller indices are named after him, the method having been described in his Treatise on Crystallography (1839).[2] The mineral known as millerite
is named after him.
Life and work
Miller was born in 1801 at Velindre near
hydrodynamics.[5]
Miller also gave special attention to
professorship of mineralogy, a post he held until 1870. Miller's chief work, on Crystallography, was published in 1839.[5] He was elected to the Royal Society in 1838 and received the Royal Medal in 1870, and in the same year was appointed on the International Commission du Metre. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
in 1874.
Miller was the main thrust in reforming the Parliamentary standards of length and weight,[5] after a fire which in 1834 destroyed the old standards. He was a member of the committee as well as on the Royal Commission which oversaw these new standards.[6]
Miller died in 1880 in Cambridge, England.
Family
In 1844 he married Harriet Susan Minty.
Selected writings
- William Hallowes Miller (1831) The Elements of Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics
- William Hallowes Miller (1833) An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus
- William Hallowes Miller (1839) A Treatise on Crystallography
- William Phillips, William Hallowes Miller, & Henry James Brooke (1852) An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy
- William Hallowes Miller (1863) A Tract on Crystallography
In 1852 Miller edited a new edition of H. J. Brooke's Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy.
References
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Wales; University of Wales Press; 2008; page 627.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary Online, May 2007
- ^ "Obituary Notice - William Hallowes Miller". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 31: ii–vii. 1880–1881.
- ^ "Miller, William Hallowes (MLR820WH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Miller, William Hallowes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 465.
- ^ See Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1856
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