Henry Alexander Miers

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

Pencil drawing of Miers by William Rothenstein, 1917

Selected publications
  • with R. Crosskey: The soil in relation to health. 1893.
  • Individuality in the mineral kingdom, an inaugural lecture delivered at the university museum, Oxford, on May 20, 1896, by Henry A. Miers.
  • Yukon : a visit to the Yukon gold-fields : letter by Henry Alex Miers. 1901.
  • Mineralogy; an introduction to the scientific study of minerals. 1902.
  • 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.
gollark: IIRC it was originally just based on signal strength scanned by the phone.
gollark: It lets devices find their distances to access points and thus (ideally) positions.
gollark: There is also the RTT-based multilateration thing. 802.11mc.
gollark: Radar. Detecting devices is ancient stuff.
gollark: Horrible privacy issues, probably, but it is very cool.

References
  1. Holland, T. H.; Spencer, L. J. (1943). "Henry Alexander Miers. 1858-1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (12): 368. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1943.0009.
  2. Charlton, H. B. (1951) Portrait of a University, 1851-1951. Manchester: University Press; pp. 141, 176


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