Henry James Brooke
Henry James Brooke (born May 25, 1771 in Exeter , † June 26, 1857 in Clapham Rise, London ) was a British crystallographer and mineralogist .
He was the son of a milled wool manufacturer and after dropping out of law school he became a successful businessman (wool trade with the Spaniards, mines in South America, life insurance in London).
His hobby was collecting minerals, plants and shells and he later bequeathed his collection to the University of Cambridge . In 1815 he became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London , 1818 the Linnean Society of London , 1819 the Royal Society and 1825 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1853 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . According to his article in the Dictionary of National Biography , he found 13 new mineral types such as annabergite , autunite and whewellite (together with William Hallowes Miller ), arfvedsonite , caledonite , childrenite , linarite , nitronatrite , susannite and thomsonite .
His book on crystallography was very influential in its day. In it he proposed a new nomenclature.
His son Charles Brooke (1804–1879) was a noted surgeon and inventor, also a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1825 the titanium dioxide mineral brookite was named after him.
Fonts
- Familiar introduction to crystallography , London 1823.
- with WH Miller An elementary introduction to mineralogy , London 1852.
- He also wrote articles on mineralogy and crystallography in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brooke, Henry James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British crystallographer and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Exeter |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1857 |
| Place of death | Clapham Rise, London |