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Feb 24, 2017 · Pure Intelligence: The Life of William Hyde Wollaston is a biography two centuries overdue: but well worth the wait. Wollaston was an exact contemporary of Humphry Davy and Thomas Young, the three having arrived in London to pursue scientific careers at the turn of the 19th century.
William Hyde Wollaston FRS (August 6, 1766 – December 22, 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements, palladium, and rhodium, and for developing a way to process platinum ore. Wollaston was a somewhat reclusive scientist who never married.
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Jun 27, 2018 · WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE (b. East Dereham, Norfolk, England, 6 August 1766; d. London, England, 22 December 1828) chemistry, optics, physiology. Wollaston’s family had become well known through their interests in science and theology.
He primarily studied medicine, but also studied astronomy with John Brinkley, later astronomer royal for Ireland; chemistry with his elder brother Francis John Hyde Wollaston, lecturer in mathematics, and botany.,Wollaston left Cambridge in 1789 and initially practised medicine.
William Hyde Wollaston. 1766-1828. English scientist who made fundamental contributions to chemistry, physics, astronomy, biology, and medicine. Though trained as a physician, Wollaston's interests encompassed a wide variety of scientific fields. He discovered the elements palladium (1804) and rhodium (1805), and a technique to create malleable ...
(1766–1828) The quantity and diversity of William Hyde Wollaston's research made him one of the most influential scientists of his time. Although formally trained as a physician, Wollaston studied and made advances in many scientific fields, including chemistry, physics, botany, crystallography, optics, astronomy, and mineralogy.
Paper, 'Communication of a singular fact in natural history' by the Earl of Morton [George Douglas] in a letter to William Hyde Wollaston. Creator: George Douglas. View all 7 related items (recipient) Chemist, physicist and physiologist 1766 - 1828.
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