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 (1766–1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology Wollaston...
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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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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 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 It was originally made of gold (1831–1845), then palladium, a metal discovered by Wollaston (1846–1860)...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 (formally 2 Pallas), which...
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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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William Wollaston (/ˈwʊləstən/; 26 March 1659 – 29 October 1724) was an English school teacher, Church of England priest, scholar of Latin, Greek, and...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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ISSN 0360-2133. Melvyn C. Usselman: William Hyde Wollaston Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 31 March 2013 William Hyde Wollaston (1802) "A method of examining...
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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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(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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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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Ørsted discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Davy and William Hyde Wollaston tried, but failed, to design an electric motor. Faraday, having...
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many of those elements are called nonmetals in chemistry. In 1802, William Hyde Wollaston noted the appearance of a number of dark features in the solar spectrum...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Wollaston landscape lens, named for William Hyde Wollaston, was a meniscus lens with a small aperture stop in front of the concave side of the lens...
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Scottish chemist, discoverer of strontium (d. 1844) August 6 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828) September 6 – John Dalton, English chemist...
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1814 No record of lecture 1813 William Thomas Brande, On some new Electro-Chemical Phenomena. 1812 William Hyde Wollaston, On the Elementary Particles of...
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