Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (born May 10, 1826 in Woodbourne near Sheffield , † March 10, 1908 in Sheffield) was an English naturalist .
Life
Sorby attended collegiate school in Sheffield and then devoted himself to science studies at his estate Broomfield near Sheffield. He achieved significant successes in particular by applying microscopic research to physical objects and also physical methods to geological problems.
Sorby first pointed out the microscopic examination of crystals and rocks, as well as their importance for theoretical conclusions. He was thus able to prove the mechanical origin of the foliation . He published his first related work in 1858 in the "Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society" (Vol. XIV) under the title On the microscopic structure of crystals, indicating the origin of minerals and rocks . He also first applied spectral analysis to microscopic examinations and constructed a spectroscope for analyzing colored liquids, such as B. blood. His studies of the microscopic nature of steel and meteorites are also of great value. Sorby is considered to be the founder of the knowledge of sediments , sedimentology .
The first attempts with thin sections go back to Bořický. Sorby first published this method in 1858 in an article in the Journal of the Geological Society of London.
Henry Clifton Sorby died on March 10, 1908 on his country estate in Broomfield near Sheffield. He was buried in Eccleshall's churchyard.
Honors
In 1857 he was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society , which in 1874 awarded him the Royal Medal . Sorby was also a member of the Geological Society of London , which awarded him the Wollaston Medal in 1869 . In 1872 he received the gold medal of the Dutch Society of Sciences. In 1892 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University . Sorby was President of the Royal Microscopical Society . He was the first president of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union . He was the first President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland .
According to him, Dorsa Sorby , a group of ridges on the moon named.
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- Entry with the Royal Society
Web links
- Biography on The Sorby Natural History Society Sheffield
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emanuel Bořický: The work of the geological department of the regional exploration of Bohemia, Part II, Petrographic studies on the basalt rocks of Bohemia . Prague (Řivnač) 1873, pp. 3–4
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sorby, Henry Clifton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woodbourne near Sheffield |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1908 |
| Place of death | Sheffield |