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William Hallowes Miller

1801 - 1880

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Prof William Hallowes Miller FRS HFRSE LLD DCL (6 April 1801 – 20 May 1880) was a Welsh mineralogist and laid the foundations of modern crystallography. Miller indices are named after him, the method having been described in his Treatise on Crystallography (1839). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hallowes Miller has received more than 36,209 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. William Hallowes Miller is the 482nd most popular chemist (down from 459th in 2019), the 3,320th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,196th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William Hallowes Miller ranks 482 out of 602. Before him are Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Ludwig Knorr, Luis E. Miramontes, Albert Kluyver, Charles Blagden, and David MacMillan. After him are Alfred Stock, Christian Konrad Sprengel, Albert Eschenmoser, Ludwig Mond, Edmond Frémy, and Masatoshi Shima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, William Hallowes Miller ranks 69. Before him are José Joaquín Pérez, Carlo Cattaneo, František Škroup, Henri de Brouckère, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, and Ludwig Bechstein. After him are Édouard Spach, Edward William Lane, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, Zecharias Frankel, Georgios Koletis, and Maria Röhl. Among people deceased in 1880, William Hallowes Miller ranks 52. Before him are Nils Johan Andersson, Daniel Bashiel Warner, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Heinrich von Gagern, Karl von Holtei, and Cándido Bareiro. After him are Martin Gropius, Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, Sara Forbes Bonetta, Sabin Berthelot, and José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hallowes Miller ranks 3,320 out of 8,785. Before him are Nicholas Ridley (1500), Charles Winslow (1888), Ian McNeice (1950), Catherine Bell (1968), W. S. Gilbert (1836), and Clive Russell (1945). After him are Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), Verney Lovett Cameron (1844), Anne Hutchinson (1591), Henry Macintosh (1892), Catherine of York (1479), and Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Hallowes Miller ranks 63. Before him are Morris Travers (1872), William Gregor (1761), William Nicholson (1753), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Charles Blagden (1748), and David MacMillan (1968). After him are Edward Charles Howard (1774), Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), Robin Hill (1899), Leslie Orgel (1927), Neil Bartlett (1932), and John Mayow (1640).

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