Henry Clifton Sorby
1826 - 1908
- Born
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10 May 1826
Woodbourne, Atterckiffe near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
- Died
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09/03/1908
Sheffield
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 11/06/1857
- Fields of Interest
- Microscopy
- Catalogue
- View catalogue entry
- Wikipedia
- View wikipedia entry
Author of
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Referee's report by Robert Bellamy Clifton, on two papers 'On some hitherto undescribed optical properties of doubly refracting crystals.—Preliminary notice' by Henry Clifton Sorby, and 'On the foci of lines seen through a crystalline plate' by George Gabriel Stokes
Creator: Robert Bellamy Clifton Reference number: RR/8/64 -
Letter from Robert Bellamy Clifton, to Mr White, regarding two papers 'On some hitherto undescribed optical properties of doubly refracting crystals.—Preliminary notice' by Henry Clifton Sorby, and 'On the foci of lines seen through a crystalline plate' by George Gabriel Stokes
Creator: Robert Bellamy Clifton Reference number: RR/8/65
Referee of
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Referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'Notes on the chemical geology of the gold-fields of California' by John Arthur Phillips
Creator: Henry Clifton Sorby Reference number: RR/6/230 -
Referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'On a new locality of Amblygonite, and on montebrasite, a new hydrated aluminium and lithium phosphate' by Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux
Creator: Henry Clifton Sorby Reference number: RR/7/234 -
Second referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'On the nature and origin of the beds of chert in the upper carboniferous limestones of Ireland' by Edward Hull and E T Hardman
Creator: Henry Clifton Sorby Reference number: RR/8/38 -
Referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'On the nature and origin of the beds of chert in the upper carboniferous limestones of Ireland' by Edward Hull and E T Hardman
Creator: Henry Clifton Sorby Reference number: RR/8/39 -
Referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'On the origin of the mineral, structural, and chemical characters of ophites and related rocks' by W King and T H Rowney
Creator: Henry Clifton Sorby Reference number: RR/8/166 -
Referee's report by Henry Clifton Sorby, on a paper 'Limestone as an index of geological time' by Thomas Mellard Reade
Creator: Henry Clifton Sorby Reference number: RR/8/186
Recipient of
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Henry Clifton Sorby, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/23/179
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
2 letters