William Allen Miller

William Allen Miller

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

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

He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Ackworth School and King's College London.

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.[1] In 1845, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]

According to his obituary,[3] 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. ↑ William Huggins & W.A. Miller (1 January 1864) On the spectrum of some nebula, Proceedings of the Royal Society, link from Internet Archive
  2. ↑ "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Royal Society of Great Britain (1871). "Obituary". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 19: xi–xvi.

Further reading

Miller's signature


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