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William Nicol

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William Nicol

Scottish geologist and physicist (1770-1851)

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William Nicol FRSE FCS was a Scottish geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828.

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physicist, geologist

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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April 18, 1770

Died

September 2, 1851

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