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    Henry Clifton Sorby (10 May 1826 – 9 March 1908) was an English microscopist and geologist. His major contribution was the development of techniques for...
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  • Sorby is an English family name and may refer to the following people: Angela Sorby, American poet, professor and literary scholar Henry Clifton Sorby...
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    The Henry Clifton Sorby Collection contains glass lantern slides of marine organisms prepared and donated by Henry Clifton Sorby in the 1900s. Sorby was...
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    structure of metals using metallography, a technique invented by Henry Clifton Sorby. In metallography, an alloy of interest is ground flat and polished...
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    science of metallurgy was advanced through the work of Henry Clifton Sorby and others. Sorby pioneered the study of iron and steel under microscope,...
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    which polarizes light, in 1827–1828 while studying fossilized wood; Henry Clifton Sorby showed that thin sections of minerals could be identified by their...
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    interfaces; and mechanical alloying. Pearlite was first identified by Henry Clifton Sorby and initially named sorbite, however the similarity of microstructure...
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    University, invents the first practical binocular microscope. 1863: Henry Clifton Sorby develops a metallurgical microscope to observe structure of meteorites...
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    geologist Henry Clifton Sorby in 1976. "Dorsa Sorby". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program. LAC-42 Dorsa Sorby at The...
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    (deposited in Cretaceous times), in which they were first described by Henry Clifton Sorby in 1861. Collapsed coccosphere of Pleurochrysis carterae There are...
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