Henry Alexander Miers Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor Sir
Henry Alexander Miers
Honorific Suffix:Kt FRS
Birth Date:25 May 1858
Birth Place:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Death Date:10 December 1942
Nationality:British

Sir Henry Alexander Miers, FRS[1] (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.

He was Professor of Crystallography at the Victoria University of Manchester 1915–1926 and Vice-Chancellor of the University during the same years.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Holland . T. H. . Thomas Henry Holland. Spencer . L. J. . Leonard James Spencer. 10.1098/rsbm.1943.0009 . Henry Alexander Miers. 1858-1942 . . 4 . 12 . 368 . 1943 . 153456234 .
  2. Charlton, H. B. (1951) Portrait of a University, 1851-1951. Manchester: University Press; pp. 141, 176