William Hyde Wollaston information

William Hyde Wollaston FRS (/ˈwʊləstən/; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical...

A Wollaston prism is an optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston, that manipulates polarized light. It separates light into two separate linearly...

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...

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 It was originally made of gold (1831–1845), then palladium, a metal discovered by Wollaston (1846–1860)...

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...

William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology Wollaston...

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...

William Wollaston (/ˈwʊləstən/; 26 March 1659 – 29 October 1724) was a school teacher, Church of England priest, scholar of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew,...

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...

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...

tantalum in 1801 and named it columbium. In 1809, English chemist William Hyde Wollaston wrongly concluded that tantalum and columbium were identical. German...

Wollaston's father George Hyde Wollaston (1765-1841)- the philosopher Francis John Hyde Wollaston and the chemist William Hyde Wollaston. They descended from the...

had no recorded discoverers. Rhodium was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, soon after he discovered palladium. He used crude platinum ore...

which eventually defeated him. The strongest alternative had been William Hyde Wollaston, who was supported by the "Cambridge Network" of outstanding mathematicians...

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...

calcite. It is named after the English chemist and mineralogist William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828). Despite its chemical similarity to the compositional...

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...

Winogradsky column – Sergei Winogradsky Wollaston landscape lens – William Hyde Wollaston Wollaston wire – William Hyde Wollaston Woodruff key – W.N. Woodruff Wood's...

(among them Charlton Wollaston, Francis Wollaston (1694-1774), Francis Wollaston (1762-1823), George Wollaston and William Hyde Wollaston); Raven was also...

astronomy, soon to be called astrophysics, began to emerge when William Hyde Wollaston and Joseph von Fraunhofer independently discovered that, when decomposing...

principle. The principle was also championed by some chemists such as William Hyde Wollaston. The French mathematician Émilie du Châtelet, who had a sound grasp...

Mallord William Turner Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland Benjamin West William Wilberforce William Hyde Wollaston Mary Wollstonecraft William Wordsworth...

The camera lucida was patented in 1806 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. The basic optics were described 200 years earlier by the German...

Prismatic and diffraction spectra: memoirs. By Joseph von Fraunhofer, William Hyde Wollaston. American Book Co., 1899. Fraunhofer (crater) German inventors and...

1802, William Hyde Wollaston built an improved spectrometer that included a lens to focus the Sun's spectrum on a screen. Upon use, Wollaston realized...