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    William Hyde Wollaston FRS (/ˈwʊləstən/; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical...
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    A Wollaston prism is an optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston, that manipulates polarized light. It separates light into two separate linearly...
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    The term "bicarbonate" was coined in 1814 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. The name lives on as a trivial name. The bicarbonate ion (hydrogencarbonate...
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    William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made of gold (1831–1845), then palladium, a metal discovered by Wollaston (1846–1860)...
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    lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1802 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after...
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  • William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology Wollaston...
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    members of the platinum group metals. It was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston in one such ore, and named for the rose color of one of its chlorine...
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    William Wollaston (/ˈwʊləstən/; 26 March 1659 – 29 October 1724) was a school teacher, Church of England priest, scholar of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew,...
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    Wollaston's father George Hyde Wollaston (1765-1841)- the philosopher Francis John Hyde Wollaston and the chemist William Hyde Wollaston. They descended from the...
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  • William Wollaston (1659–1724) was an English philosophical writer. William Wollaston is also the name of: William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist...
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  • Cambridge. Francis John Hyde Wollaston was the son of Francis Wollaston (1731–1815) and Althea Hyde, and brother to William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828). He was...
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    Fraunhofer, who observed them in 1814. In 1802, English chemist William Hyde Wollaston was the first person to note the appearance of a number of dark...
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    tantalum in 1801 and named it columbium. In 1809, English chemist William Hyde Wollaston wrongly concluded that tantalum and columbium were identical. German...
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  • Charlotte Hyde Wollaston (1763–1835) Katherine Hyde Wollaston (1764–1844), conchologist George Hyde Wollaston (1765–1841) William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828)...
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    had no recorded discoverers. Rhodium was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, soon after he discovered palladium. He used crude platinum ore...
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    named the lake after George Hyde Wollaston, a member of the Hudson Bay Company's Committee and brother of William Hyde Wollaston. The only settlement on its...
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  • expose the platinum core. The wire is named after its inventor, William Hyde Wollaston, who first produced it in England in the early 19th century. Platinum...
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    Onehouse. Wollaston was married to Blanche, daughter of Robert Hyde Page and sister of Sir Thomas-Hyde Page. They had no children. "WOLLASTON, William (1731-97)...
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    calcite. It is named after the English chemist and mineralogist William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828). Despite its chemical similarity to the compositional...
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    which eventually defeated him. The strongest alternative had been William Hyde Wollaston, who was supported by the "Cambridge Network" of outstanding mathematicians...
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    astronomy, soon to be called astrophysics, began to emerge when William Hyde Wollaston and Joseph von Fraunhofer independently discovered that, when decomposing...
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  • (among them Charlton Wollaston, Francis Wollaston (1694-1774), Francis Wollaston (1762-1823), George Wollaston and William Hyde Wollaston); Raven was also...
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  • Winogradsky column – Sergei Winogradsky Wollaston landscape lens – William Hyde Wollaston Wollaston wire – William Hyde Wollaston Woodruff key – W.N. Woodruff Wood's...
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    Prismatic and diffraction spectra: memoirs. By Joseph von Fraunhofer, William Hyde Wollaston. American Book Co., 1899. Fraunhofer (crater) German inventors and...
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  • founder of the Smithsonian Institution (probable Old Carthusian) William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), metallurgist, crystallographer and physiologist, discoverer...
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    Mallord William Turner Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland Benjamin West William Wilberforce William Hyde Wollaston Mary Wollstonecraft William Wordsworth...
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  • He named the Wollaston Islands of present-day Chile, in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, after the British chemist William Hyde Wollaston. As well as...
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  • Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston (31 July 1849 – 22 June 1926) was an English footballer who played as a forward for Wanderers and England. He won the...
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    heat-resistant alloys during the 20th century. Palladium was isolated by William Hyde Wollaston in 1803 while he was working on refining platinum metals. Palladium...
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    years ago. Osmium was discovered in 1803 by Smithson Tennant and William Hyde Wollaston in London, England. The discovery of osmium is intertwined with...
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