William Allen Miller
William Allen Miller (born December 17, 1817 in Ipswich , † September 30, 1870 in Liverpool ) was an English chemist .
Miller first wanted to be a surgeon and studied this from 1837 at King's College in London . During his studies he switched to chemistry, studied in Giessen with Justus von Liebig and became a demonstrator in chemistry at King's College in 1840. He was there assistant and in 1845 successor to John Frederic Daniell as chemistry professor at King's College.
He was one of the first chemists to use spectral analysis (around 1845). From 1845 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1867 he and William Huggins won the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for the spectroscopic study of starlight. He extended spectral analysis into the ultraviolet and used it in analytical chemistry.
With Daniell, he developed a theory of the mobility of ions in electrolysis in 1844, which was later further developed by Johann Wilhelm Hittorf and Friedrich Kohlrausch .
In 1842 he married Eliza Forrest and had a son and two daughters with her. The moon crater Miller is named after him.
Fonts
- Elements of Chemistry, 3 volumes, 1855 to 1857
- Introduction to the Study of Inorganic Chemistry, 1870
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 304
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miller, William Allen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ipswich |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1870 |
| Place of death | Liverpool |