Wollaston

[woo l-uh-stuh n]

noun

William Hyde,1766–1828, English chemist and physicist.

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Why did Mr. Wollaston add the same word to his Religion of Nature?
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes
Samuel Johnson
This was not the result sought by Wollaston, but it was closely related to that result.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2
John Tyndall
On the day of the funeral the belated ships of Whitney and Wollaston arrived.
Sir Walter Ralegh
William Stebbing
Whitney and Wollaston planned the plunder of homeward-bound Spanish ships.
Sir Walter Ralegh
William Stebbing
Its progress was slow, and accidents detained Whitney's and Wollaston's vessels.
Sir Walter Ralegh
William Stebbing

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Wollaston

[wul′ə-stən]William Hyde 1766-1828

British chemist and physicist who discovered the elements palladium (1803) and rhodium (1804). In 1805 he devised a process for producing malleable platinum that could be used to make various utensils and apparatus. Wollaston was also one of the first scientists to realize that the arrangement of atoms in a molecule must be three-dimensional.