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William Nicol (inventor)
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William Nicol (geologist)
William Nicol FRSE (18 Apr 1770 – 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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