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William Hyde Wollaston

1766 - 1828

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William Hyde Wollaston (; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) 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, patented the camera lucida, and made contributions in electricity and spectroscopy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Hyde Wollaston is the 227th most popular chemist (up from 241st in 2019), the 871st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 955th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular British Chemist.

William Hyde Wollaston is most famous for his discovery of palladium in 1802.

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Among chemists, William Hyde Wollaston ranks 227 out of 602. Before him are Ahmed Zewail, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, John Newlands, Joachim Frank, Hartmut Michel, and John Vane. After him are Richard Abegg, Ignacy Mościcki, Stanley Miller, James B. Conant, Stanislao Cannizzaro, and August Wilhelm von Hofmann.

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Among people born in 1766, William Hyde Wollaston ranks 10. Before him are Germaine de Staël, Charlotte, Princess Royal, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Nikolay Karamzin, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, and Franz Xaver Süssmayr. After him are Johanna Schopenhauer, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Maine de Biran, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Dominique Jean Larrey, and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel. Among people deceased in 1828, William Hyde Wollaston ranks 12. Before him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Victor of Aveyron, Maria Feodorovna, Kobayashi Issa, Alexander Ypsilantis, and Franz Joseph Gall. After him are Jean-Antoine Houdon, Karl Mack von Leiberich, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Radama I, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and Sineperver Sultan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hyde Wollaston ranks 871 out of 8,785. Before him are Ælla of Northumbria (800), Brian Epstein (1934), Thandie Newton (1972), Jude Law (1972), Karl Pearson (1857), and Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878). After him are John Paul Jones (1946), Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Hyde Wollaston ranks 32. Before him are Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Herbert C. Brown (1912), James Dewar (1842), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), John Newlands (1837), and John Vane (1927). After him are John Frederic Daniell (1790), John Pople (1925), Ida Noddack (1896), Fraser Stoddart (1942), Thomas Graham (1805), and Richard J. Roberts (1943).

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