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Oct 3, 2018 · Learn about William Nicol, a Dutch Reformed minister, educator, and Afrikaner leader who opposed Bantu Education and translated the Bible into IsiZulu. Find out why his name is on a major road in Johannesburg and how it may change soon.
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. Early life. Nicol was born in Humbie ( East Lothian ), the son of Walter Nicol and Marion Fowler. [1] .
Sep 26, 2023 · Rev Dr. William Nicol was a Dutch Reformed minister, theologian, educator and Administrator of the Transvaal Province. He was born on 23 March 1887 and died at the age of 80...
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Mar 18, 2021 · William Nicol was a Dutch Reformed minister and a Broederbond leader who supported apartheid and Nazism. Learn how he got his name on a major road in Johannesburg and why it should be changed.
William Nicol 1771 – 1851. Little is known about Nicol’s early life and education, other than that he was born in Humbie, near Edinburgh c. 1771. It is not until his teenage years that his life became better documented.
May 23, 2018 · Nicol, William (1768–1851) A mineralogist from Edinburgh, Nicol invented the calcite prism named after him and used in polarizing microscopes (see NICOL PRISM). His description of a microscope based on his prisms was published in 1829, although the instrument was in use much earlier.
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British geologist best known for inventing the Nicol prism for studying rocks and minerals under polarized light. The Nicol prism, still in widespread use today, made possible the use of petrographic microscopes for the study of sections of rock ground to near-transparency.
