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.
- Occupation
- chemist, physicist, engineer, metallurgist
- Position held
- President of the Royal Society
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- August 6, 1766
- Died
- December 22, 1828
