William Hyde Wollaston
✶August 6, 1766
†December 22, 1828
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✶August 6, 1766
†December 22, 1828
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William Hyde Wollaston 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.
English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)
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