Sir Henry Alexander Miers, FRS (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.
Selected publications
- with R. Crosskey: The soil in relation to health. Macmillan. 1893.
- Individuality in the mineral kingdom, an inaugural lecture delivered at the university museum, Oxford, on May 20, 1896, by Henry A. Miers. B.H. Blackwell. 23 February 1896.
- Miers, Sir Henry Alexander (1901). Yukon : a visit to the Yukon gold-fields : letter by Henry Alex Miers. CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series;no. 72898. ISBN 978-0-665-72898-3.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - Mineralogy; an introduction to the scientific study of minerals. Macmillan and Co., limited. 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. Journal of the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club ;June, 1911. Henry Frowde. 23 February 2024.
References
External links
- AIM25: University College London: Miers Papers Archived 22 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine at www.aim25.ac.uk
- Works by Henry Alexander Miers at Project Gutenberg
