William Hallowes Miller
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|birth_date = [[April 6]], [[1801]]
|birth_place = [[Llandovery]], [[Carmarthen]]shire
|death_date = [[May 20]], [[1880]]
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'''William Hallowes Miller''' ([[April 6]], [[1801]] – [[May 20]], [[1880]]), [[United Kingdom|British]] [[mineralogist]] and [[crystallographer]], was born at Velindre near [[Llandovery]], [[Carmarthen]]shire. The [[mineral]] known as [[millerite]] is named after him.
He was educated at [[St John's College, Cambridge]], where he graduated in [[1826]] as fifth wrangler, and became a fellow in [[1829]]. For a few years he was occupied as a college tutor and during this time he published treatises on [[hydrostatics]] and [[hydrodynamics]].
He also gave special attention to [[crystallography]], and on the resignation of [[William Whewell]] he succeeded in [[1832]] to the [[Professor of Mineralogy, Cambridge University|professorship of mineralogy]], a post which he occupied until [[1870]]. His chief work, on ''Crystallography'', was published in [[1838]]. He was elected [[Royal Society|FRS]] in [[1838]].
[[Miller Index|Miller Indices]] are named after him, the method having been described in his ''Treatise on Crystallography'' (1839) (Oxford English Dictionary Online, May 2007).
In [[1852]] he edited a new edition of HJ Brooke's ''Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy''. He assisted in [[1843]] the committee appointed to superintend the construction of the new Parliamentary standards of length and weight (see ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|Phil. Trans.]]'', 1856).
==Partial Bibliography==
*William Hallowes Miller (1831) [http://www.google.ca/books?id=Z1DoueyYuGsC&pg=PA1&dq=William+Hallowes+Miller ''The Elements of Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics'']
*William Hallowes Miller (1833) [http://www.google.ca/books?id=FR9fBb6h2ZoC&pg=RA1-PA1&dq=William+Hallowes+Miller ''An elementary treatise on the differential calculus'']
*William Hallowes Miller (1839) [http://www.google.ca/books?id=MDcAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=William+Hallowes+Miller ''A Treatise on Crystallography'']
*William Phillips, William Hallowes Miller, & Henry James Brooke (1852) [http://www.google.ca/books?id=mxsIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=William+Hallowes+Miller ''An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy'']
*William Hallowes Miller (1863) [http://www.google.ca/books?id=xTgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=William+Hallowes+Miller ''A Tract on Crystallography'' ]
==References==
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