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About William Nicol
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.
Everything about William Nicol →- Occupation
- physicist, geologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 18, 1770
- Died
- September 2, 1851