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Sorby, Henry Clifton

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

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Born Sheffield, England, 10 May 1826

Died Sheffield, England, 9 March 1908

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  • Higham, N. (1963). A Very Scientific Gentleman: The Major Achievements of Henry Clifton Sorby. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

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  • Liffman, K. and M. J. I. Brown (1996). “The Protostellar Jet Model of Chondrule Formation.” In Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk, edited by R. H. Hewins, R. H. Jones, and E. R. D. Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 285–302.

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  • Shu, Frank H., Hsein Shang, and Typhoon Lee (1996). “Toward an Astrophysical Theory of Chondrites.” Science 271: 1545–1552.

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  • Sorby, Henry Clifton (1851). “On the Microscopical Structure of the Calcareous Grit of the Yorkshire Coast.” Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 7: 1–6.

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  • — (1877). “On the Structure and Origin of Meteorites.” Nature 15: 495–498.

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  1. Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization (Australia), Clayton South, Australia

    Kurt Liffman

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

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  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Liffman, K. (2014). Sorby, Henry Clifton. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1299

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