William Hallowes Miller
William Hallowes Miller ( born April 6, 1801 in Velindre near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales, † May 20 1880 in Cambridge ) was a British mineralogist, crystallographer and physicist.
His education was in Miller St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1826 and which he joined in 1829. For some years he was a college tutor and during this period he published treatises on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics.
His special attention was paid to crystallography. With the resignation of William Whewell in 1832 he succeeded him as professor of mineralogy, a post he retained until 1870. His main work in the field of crystallography was published in 1838.
The eponymous Miller indices are used in crystallography to describe crystal faces clearly. He beat your spelling before in 1839.
In 1843 he supported the committee that developed the standards for lengths and weights for Parliament. In 1852 he became editor of a new edition of Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy by Henry James Brooke.
Mineral descriptions
Miller is considered together with Henry James Brooke as the first to the minerals and Annabergite Whewellite.