William Nicol (geologist)

William Nicol
Born(1770-04-18)18 April 1770
Died2 September 1851(1851-09-02) (aged 81)
Known forinvented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane polarized light

William Nicol FRSE FCS (1768? – 2 September 1851) 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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