Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Sorby Henry Clifton H. C. S. ; H. C. Sorby del. & lith.; 1826 in Woodbourne near Sheffield, England 1906 Broomfield near Sheffield tool manufacturer Sheffield Collegiate School (left at age 15), private tutoring; no college or university studies United Kingdom On the microscopic structure of crystals, indicating the origin of minerals & rocks, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 14 (1858); Royal Geological Society, London; Royal Society, London (Fellow 1857); President of the Royal Microscopical Society & Yorkshire Naturalists Union; photographer ->Charles Hoole in Sheffield ; metallurgical, geological & mineralogical drawing, lithography, chromolithography; metallography; photomicrography; heliotype, meteor nature print www.shef.ac.uk/materials/research/centres/sorby/background www.sorby.org.uk/hcsorby.shtml ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clifton_Sorby Sorby Centennial Symposium on History of Metallurgy 1963; Sorby Collection of Papers 1853-1906; on sedimentology 1851-1908; Eddyvean & Hammond: Metallurgical Work of HCS, Historical Metallurgy 31 (1997): 54-85; light microscopy, ibid. 23(1989):1-8; Kirchheimer 1982:77-80; Hentschel 2014:100-7 1st president of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. member Sheffield Literary & Philosophical Society, pioneered metallography 27849444
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