Henry Alexander Miers | |
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 Pencil drawing of Miers by William Rothenstein, 1917 | |
| Born | 25 May 1858 |
| Died | 10 December 1942 |
| Nationality | British |
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Sir Henry Alexander Miers, FRS[1] (25 May 1858 – 10 December 1942) was a British mineralogist and crystallographer.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896.[1]
He was Professor of Crystallography at the Victoria University of Manchester 1915–1926 and Vice-Chancellor of the University during the same years.[2]
Selected publications
[edit]- with R. Crosskey: The soil in relation to health. Macmillan. 1893.
- Individuality in the mineral kingdom, an inaugural lecture delivered at the university museum, Oxford, on May 20, 1896, by Henry A. Miers. B.H. Blackwell. 23 February 1896.
- Miers, Sir Henry Alexander (1901). Yukon : a visit to the Yukon gold-fields : letter by Henry Alex Miers. CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series;no. 72898. ISBN 978-0-665-72898-3.
- Mineralogy; an introduction to the scientific study of minerals. Macmillan and Co., limited. 1902.
- The growth of a crystal : being the eighteenth Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club, on the 20th of May, 1911. Journal of the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club ;June, 1911. Henry Frowde. 23 February 2024.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Holland, T. H.; Spencer, L. J. (1943). "Henry Alexander Miers. 1858-1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (12): 368. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1943.0009. S2CID 153456234.
- ^ Charlton, H. B. (1951) Portrait of a University, 1851-1951. Manchester: University Press; pp. 141, 176
External links
[edit]- AIM25: University College London: Miers Papers Archived 22 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine at www.aim25.ac.uk
- Works by Henry Alexander Miers at Project Gutenberg
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