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CAN any of your readers supply me with the dates of birth and death of William Nicol, the inventor of the Nicol prism? There is a tablet to his memory in the Wariston Cemetery, in Edinburgh, bearing an inscription drawn up by the late Prof. Tait. Strange as it may seem, though his fame is world-wide in optics, he is not even mentioned in the “Dictionary of National Biography,” nor do I know of any memoir of him elsewhere.
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THOMPSON, S. The Inventor of the Nicol Prism. Nature 73, 340 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073340d0
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