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William Allen Miller

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William Allen Miller

Born 17 December 1817
Died
30 September 1870 (1870-10-01) (aged 52)
Nationality English
Alma mater King's College London
Awards Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Scientific career
Fields
Chemistry
Astronomy


William Allen Miller FRS (17 December 1817 – 30 September 1870) was a British scientist.



Life


Miller was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Ackworth School and King's College London. He was related to William Allen and first cousin to the leading suffragist Anne Knight.[1]


On the death of John Frederic Daniell he succeeded to the Chair of Chemistry at King's. Although primarily a chemist, the scientific contributions for which Miller is mainly remembered today are in spectroscopy and astrochemistry, new fields in his time.


Miller won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1867 jointly with William Huggins, for their spectroscopic study of the composition of stars.[2]
In 1845, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[3]


According to his obituary,[4] Miller married Eliza Forrest of Birmingham in 1842. He died in 1870, a year after his wife, and they are both buried at West Norwood Cemetery. They were survived by a son and two daughters.


The crater Miller on the Moon is named after him.



References





  1. ^
    Edward H. Milligan, ‘Knight, Anne (1786–1862)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 Aug 2017


  2. ^ William Huggins & W.A. Miller (1 January 1864) On the spectrum of some nebula, Proceedings of the Royal Society, link from Internet Archive


  3. ^ "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2011..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  4. ^ Royal Society of Great Britain (1871). "Obituary". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 19: xi–xvi.




Further reading












  • Adams, C. W. (1943). "William Allen Miller and William Hallowes Miller (A Note to the Early History of Spectroscopy)". Isis. 34 (4): 337–339. doi:10.1086/347830.


  • Ashley-Miller, Michael (2008). "William Allen Miller (1817–70): a distinguished scientist re-discovered". Journal of Medical Biography. 16 (4): 237–240. doi:10.1258/jmb.2008.008012. PMID 18953000. Archived from the original on 2011-07-15.


  • Miller, W. A. (1871). Introduction to the Study of Inorganic Chemistry. London: Longmans, Green, and Company.




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