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See also:MILLER, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM HALLOWES (18o1–188o) , See also:British mineralogist and crystallographer, was See also:born at Velindre near See also:Llandovery, See also:Carmarthenshire, on the 6th of See also:April 18o1. He was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated in 1826 as fifth wrangler, and became a See also:fellow in 1829. For a few years he was occupied as a college See also:tutor and during this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he published See also:treatises on See also:hydrostatics and hydro-See also:dynamics. He also gave See also:special See also:attention to See also:crystallography, and on the resignation of W. See also:Whewell he succeeded in 1832 to the professorship of See also:mineralogy, a See also:post which he occupied until 187o. His See also:chief See also:work, on Crystallography, was published in 1838. He was elected F.R.S. in 1838. In 1852 he edited a new edition of H. J. See also:Brooke's Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy. He assisted in 1843 the See also:committee appointed to super-intend the construction of the new See also:Parliamentary See also:standards of length and See also:weight (see Phil. Trans., 1856). He died in Cambridge on the loth of May 1880.
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