William Hyde Wollaston
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 196 years ago |
Date of birth | August 6,1766 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Dereham |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | December 22,1828 |
Died | Chislehurst |
United Kingdom | |
Discovered | Palladium |
Rhodium | |
Job | Engineer |
Physicist | |
Chemist | |
Education | Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge |
University of Cambridge | |
Awards | Copley Medal |
Royal Medal | |
Parents | Althea Hyde |
Francis Wollaston | |
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ID | 566864 |
William Hyde Wollaston Life story
William Hyde Wollaston FRS was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingots.