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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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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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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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 It was originally made of gold (1831–1845), then palladium, a metal discovered by Wollaston (1846–1860)...
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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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