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William Hallowes Miller

1801 - 1880

William Hallowes Miller

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 33,467 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Hallowes Miller is the 459th most popular chemist (up from 462nd in 2019), the 3,204th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,405th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William Hallowes Miller ranks 459 out of 509. Before him are Maclyn McCarty, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Ludwig Mond, Carl Jacob Löwig, Christian Konrad Sprengel, and Robin Hill. After him are Robert Havemann, Adolph Strecker, Caleb Bradham, Hans Goldschmidt, Theodor Curtius, and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, William Hallowes Miller ranks 66. Before him are Atanasio Aguirre, Carl August von Steinheil, José Joaquín Pérez, Zecharias Frankel, František Škroup, and Friedrich Frey-Herosé. After him are Edward William Lane, Ludwig Bechstein, Maria Röhl, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Georgios Koletis, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Among people deceased in 1880, William Hallowes Miller ranks 48. Before him are James Craig Watson, Benjamin Peirce, Nils Johan Andersson, Izmail Sreznevsky, Napoléon Henri Reber, and Karl von Holtei. After him are Christian August Friedrich Peters, Martin Gropius, Cándido Bareiro, Heinrich von Gagern, Sabin Berthelot, and Thomas Bell.

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Atanasio Aguirre
1801 - 1875
HPI: 48.92
Rank: 60
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1801 - 1870
HPI: 48.88
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José Joaquín Pérez
1801 - 1889
HPI: 48.43
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Zecharias Frankel
1801 - 1875
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 63
František Škroup
1801 - 1862
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 64
Friedrich Frey-Herosé
1801 - 1873
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 65
William Hallowes Miller
1801 - 1880
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 66
Edward William Lane
1801 - 1876
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 67
Ludwig Bechstein
1801 - 1860
HPI: 46.73
Rank: 68
Maria Röhl
1801 - 1875
HPI: 45.41
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Albert Auguste Perdonnet
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Georgios Koletis
1801 - Present
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