Henry Alexander Miers
{{Short description|British scientist (1858–1942)}}
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Sir Henry Alexander Miers, FRS{{Cite journal | last1 = Holland | first1 = T. H. | author-link1 = Thomas Henry Holland| last2 = Spencer | first2 = L. J. | author-link2= Leonard James Spencer| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1943.0009 | title = Henry Alexander Miers. 1858-1942 | journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 4 | issue = 12 | pages = 368 | year = 1943 | s2cid = 153456234 }} (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. was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 30.11.1915 and was President of the Society 1919–21.
He was Professor of Crystallography at the Victoria University of Manchester 1915–1926 and Vice-Chancellor of the University during the same years.Charlton, H. B. (1951) Portrait of a University, 1851-1951. Manchester: University Press; pp. 141, 176
Selected publications
- with R. Crosskey: {{cite book|title=The soil in relation to health|year=1893|publisher=Macmillan |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008887434}}
- {{cite book|title=Individuality in the mineral kingdom, an inaugural lecture delivered at the university museum, Oxford, on May 20, 1896, by Henry A. Miers|date=23 February 1896 |publisher=B.H. Blackwell |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012155957}}
- {{cite book|title=Yukon : a visit to the Yukon gold-fields : letter by Henry Alex Miers|series=CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series;no. 72898 |year=1901|isbn=978-0-665-72898-3 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100293202 |last1=Miers |first1=Sir Henry Alexander }}
- {{cite book|title=Mineralogy; an introduction to the scientific study of minerals|year=1902|publisher=Macmillan and Co., limited |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002001896}}
- {{cite book|title=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|series=Journal of the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club ;June, 1911 |date=23 February 2024 |publisher=Henry Frowde |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007936013}}
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External links
- [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=4135&inst_id=13 AIM25: University College London: Miers Papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222144231/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=4135&inst_id=13 |date=22 February 2007 }} at www.aim25.ac.uk
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Category:People educated at Eton College
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Category:British mineralogists
Category:Wollaston Medal winners
Category:Vice-chancellors of the Victoria University of Manchester
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Category:Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
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