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	History of Palladium Part 3
		William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) was a giant figure in the history of platinum and palladium.
		Wollaston made important discoveries in astronomy (the dark lines in the solar spectrum, a crucial tool in stellar astronomy today), biochemistry (he discovered cystine, the first amino acid), physiology (he was the first to postulate that human hearing is limited to certain frequencies), and physics (in atomic theory and crystallography).
		The Wollaston Medal is named after him: the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London, first granted in 1832.
	www.palladiumcoins.com /history3.html (0 words)

	Science Fair Projects - William Hyde Wollaston
		William Hyde Wollaston (August 6, 1766 – December 22, 1828) was an English chemist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.
		He became wealthy by developing the first physico-chemical method for processing platinum ore in practical quantities, and in the process of testing the device he discovered the elements palladium in 1803 and rhodium in 1804.
		His optical work was important as well, where he is remembered for his observations of dark Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum (1802) which eventually led to the discovery of the elements in the Sun.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/William_Hyde_Wollaston (469 words)

	William Hyde Wollaston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Hyde Wollaston (August 6, 1766 – December 22, 1828) was an English chemist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.
		He became wealthy by developing the first physico-chemical method for processing platinum ore in practical quantities, and in the process of testing the device he discovered the elements palladium (symbol Pd) in 1803 and rhodium (symbol Rh) in 1804.
		His optical work was important as well, where he is remembered for his observations of dark Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum (1802) which eventually led to the discovery of the elements in the Sun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hyde_Wollaston (373 words)

	Wollaston Medal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.
		The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831.
		It was originally made of palladium, a metal discovered by Wollaston.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Wollaston_medal (177 words)

	Wollaston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wollaston lens was invented by William Wollaston in 1812, the design consisted of two plano-convex lens separated by a thin stop.
		Wollaston was the first scientist to outline the differences between the new galvanic current and that of the standard frictional current when he presented a paper before the Royal Society in June 1801.
		Wollaston in the meantime also learned about Oersted's discovery of electromagnetism and reasoned that Ampere's circular currents of electromagnetic action were the result of helical current revolving around its own axis when a permanent magnet was close to the wire.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/wollaston.html (3084 words)

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		William Hyde Wollaston FRS (August 6, 1766 – December 22, 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.
		He was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, the son of the priest-astronomer Francis Wollaston (1737-1815) and his wife Mary Farquier.
		He became wealthy by developing the first physico-chemical method for processing platinum ore in practical quantities, and in the process of testing the device he discovered the elements palladium (symbol Pd) in 1803 and rhodium (symbol Rh) in 1804.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=William_Hyde_Wollaston (395 words)

	Wollaston Beach
		Wollaston's ''Religion of Nature,'' which falls between Clarke's ''Discourse of the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion'' and Butler's ''Sermons'', was one of the popular philosophical books of its day.
		Wollaston is a cup-shaped crater with a higher albedo than the surrounding ''maria''.
		Wollaston also has a big chemical factory, founded by the Quaker Scott Bader, it is now a common ownership factory.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/231/wollaston-beach.html (494 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Wollaston, William Hyde
		Wollaston was the first scientist to outline the differences between the new galvanic current and that of the standard frictional current when he presented a paper before the Royal Society in June 1801.
		Wollaston in the meantime also learned about Oersted's discovery and reasoned that Ampere's circular currents of electromagnetic action were the result of helical current revolving around its own axis when a permanent magnet was close to the wire.
		Wollaston went on to show attraction and repulsion moving in opposite directions around a wire carrying current, but he never was successful in demonstrating electromagnetic rotation.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/WOLLASTON_BIO.html (0 words)

	PMR: Bicentenary of Four Platinum Group Metals
		In this Journal in 1966, the bicentenary of the birth of Wollaston was commemorated (11).
		The bust itself (1830), in marble, by Francis Chantrey, is in the Royal Institution, and the plaster model is kept in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the source of the portrait on the obverse of the Wollaston Medal.
		Wollaston's profile, taken from the Chantrey bust, is on the obverse, while the reverse is inscribed “Geological Society of London” with the recipient's name enclosed between laurel and palm branches (29).
	www.platinummetalsreview.com /dynamic/article/view/47-4-175-183 (3992 words)

	NHS&DSFC ASTRONOMY CLUB
		Wollaston was the first person to suggest the idea of an electric motor.
		Wollaston discovered the first amino acid, cysteine (named after the Greek word for 'bladder' as he isolated it from a bladder stone).
		Wollaston invented devices including the first efficient battery and optical instruments including the camera lucida and the Wollaston prism which is still used in some of the most advanced telescopes in the World and, in a modified form, in every CD and DVD player!
	www.neatherd.org /astronomy/Wollaston.htm (590 words)

	Wollaston (crater) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Wollaston (crater) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wollaston is a small lunar impact crater located in the Oceanus Procellarum.
		To the southeast is the somewhat larger Krieger crater.
		Wollaston is a bowl-shaped crater with a higher albedo than the surrounding maria.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Wollaston-crater.html (153 words)

	NHS&DSFC ASTRONOMY CLUB
		Wollaston was the first person to suggest the idea of an electric motor.
		Wollaston discovered the first amino acid, cysteine (named after the Greek word for 'bladder' as he isolated it from a bladder stone).
		Wollaston invented devices including the first efficient battery and optical instruments including the camera lucida and the Wollaston prism which is still used in some of the most advanced telescopes in the World and, in a modified form, in every CD and DVD player!
	astronomy.neatherd.org /Wollaston.htm (590 words)

	Geological Society - About Us - Society Medals and Awards (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Lyell Medal is normally given for contributions to 'soft' rock studies and the Murchison for 'hard' rock studies.
		The Medal will normally be awarded to persons aged 45 years or less to recognise distinction in the practice of geology with special reference to work in industry.
		The Medal, which is not confined to those with a geological background or to Fellows of the Society, will normally be awarded annually or at such other intervals as Council may determine, on a world-wide basis without regard to nationality.
	www.geolsoc.org.uk /template.cfm?name=Awards (779 words)

	Stillwater Palladium : History of Palladium Part 3
		Wollaston’s process began with with platina - a natively occuring platinum mix which came from South America.
		To refine it, the common practice was to dissolve it in aqua regia (a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids).
		Wollaston didn’t announce his discovery; he apparently thought it would have commercial value, and didn’t want to tell others how to make it.
	www.stillwaterpalladium.com /history3.html (0 words)

	Wollaston Medal Summary
		He also proposed that a large supercontinent was split apart when the Moon was torn from Earth, leaving the Pacific Ocean as a scar, and that the remaining pieces of continental crust floated apart.
		The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.
		The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831.
	www.bookrags.com /Wollaston_Medal (136 words)

	Lovelock: Wollaston Medal citation.
		In 2006 the Geological Society awarded James Lovelock the Wollaston Medal, its highest award.
		Even in the illustrious history of the Society's senior medal, first awarded to William Smith in 1831, it is rare to be able to say that the recipient has opened up a whole new field of Earth science study.
		My solution to their problem was to connect the gas chromatograph to the mass spectrometer with a few inches of tubing made of Wollaston's metal, palladium.
	www.jameslovelock.org /page7.html (0 words)

	Challenger Medal (1895)
		These writings state that Murray was presenting medals "...to the naval officers of the expedition, the contributors of memoirs to the report[s] on the scientific results of the expedition, and to members of the civilian scientific staff, as a souvenir of Challenger work." Firstly, there are nine individuals included in Walter Crane's Challenger Expedition Reports.
		The Marine Biological Station at Millport was established on the Isle of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, in the spring of 1885.
		Though it is possible that medals were not issued to some of these men due to their deaths, Busk, Carpenter and Huxley are a few examples of posthumously awarded medals.
	www.19thcenturyscience.org /HMSC/Chall-Medal/ChallengerMedal.html (4218 words)

	Wollaston Medal
		Awarded by the Geological Society of London, to "geologists who have had a significant influence by means of a substantial body of excellent research in either or both pure and...
		Even in the illustrious history of the Society's senior medal, first awarded to William Smith in 1831, it is rare to be able to say that the recipient has opened up a whole new field of Earth science...
		He established the Wollaston medal for research in mineralogy, and in 1802 received the Copley medal of the Royal Society.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Wollaston_Medal (311 words)

	William Hyde Wollaston - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Wollaston, William Hyde 1766-1828, English scientist, M.D. Cambridge, 1793.
		He created an endowment with the Wollaston medal to be awarded annually by the Geological Society, London, for outstanding research.
		Wollastonite, a mineral compound of calcium, silicon, and oxygen, was named in his honor.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-WollastW.html (237 words)

	Charles Barrois
		In 1876 Dr Barrois was appointed a collaborateur to the French Geological Survey[?], and in 1877 professor of geology in the University of Lille[?].
		In 1881 he was awarded the Bigsby medal[?], and in 1901 the Wollaston medal[?] by the Geological Society of London[?].
		He was chosen member of the Institute (Academy of Sciences[?]) in 1904.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Charles_Barrois.html (160 words)

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		Address to the Royal Geographical Society of London; delivered at the anniversary meeting on the 22nd May, 1843: Preceded by the addresses on presenting...
		medals awarded by the council of the Society by William Hamilton
		A chemist's view of some aspects of the atomic energy problem: A speech to be delivered at the Presentation of the Iowa Medal of the American Chemical Society in Iowa City, December 3, 1948 by F.
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	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: May 3, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pettijohn was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Penrose Medal from the Geological Society of America and the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London.
		An award from the Society for Sedimentary Geology, the Francis J. Pettijohn Medal, was named in his honor.
		He is survived by a son, Loren Pettijohn of Lutherville; two daughters, Norma Friedemann of Evanston, Ill., and Clare Maher of Philadelphia; a brother, Richard Pettijohn of Naples, Fla.; a sister, Elizabeth Dedolph of Reno, Nev.; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/1999/may0399/03petti.html (267 words)

	access to mineral heritage
		Smith's efforts were finally recognised in 1830 by the Geological Society when he was invited to London and awarded the first ever Wollaston Medal.
		Smith's nephew John Phillips was awarded the Wollaston Medal in 1845.
		At the medal presentation Smith gave the Geological Society his original table of strata and his coloured map of Bath (both produced in 1799) and his national map of 1801.
	www.mininghistory.org.uk /edu/WilliamSmith4.shtml (391 words)

	Geological Society - About Us - From the Archives (3) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Society awarded him the Wollaston Medal (its highest honour) in 1855.
		The Society awarded him the Wollaston medal, its highest honour, in 1875.
		Although given in honour of his palaeontological work, it was only in the year after that he actually became a professor of the subject.
	www.geolsoc.org.uk /template.cfm/template.cfm?name=Archives3 (639 words)

	Find A Grave - Mount Wollaston Cemetery
		Served as Mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts, from 1896 to 1897, and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1929 to 1933.
		He was awarded his medal for service during World War I. His citation reads-For exceptionally meritorious service and extraordinary heroism while attached to Squadron C, 1st Marine Aviation Force, in France.
		On 8 October 1918, while on such a raid, he was attacked by 9 enemy scouts, and in the fight that...
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	1859 in science . 1859 . 1860 in science . September 10 . September 15 . 1806 in science (Site not responding. Last check: )
		See also: 1859 Other events of 1859 List of years in science 1858 in science 1859 in science 1860 in science The year 1859 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
		Copley Medal: Wilhelm Weber Wollaston Medal Wollaston Medal for geology: Charles Darwin
		Copley Medal: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Wollaston Medal Wollaston Medal for geology: Searles Valentine Wood...
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /1859_in_science (295 words)

	Railsback's Graduate Students and their Academic Lineage
		He won the Geological Society of America's Arthur L Day Medal in 1984, the Alexander Agassiz Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1986, the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London in 1990, the National Medal of Science in 1996, and the Tyler Prize for environmental research in 2002.
		He was president of the American Geophysical Union from 1938 to 1941, and he won AGU's William Bowie medal for "outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research" in 1954.
		One historical account notes that "Hall carried on an immense correspondence, hurried, hypochrondriacal, irascible, irate, and nearly all of it dealing with one survey or another." One sign of his drive for geological research is his participation an expedition into the Ural Mountains of Russia at the age of 86.
	www.gly.uga.edu /railsback/AG.html (3331 words)

	Science Fresh : Article '1894 in science' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Awards Copley Medal: Karl Weierstrass Wollaston Medal for Geology: Archibald Geikie Births October 22 - Rolf Nevanlinna (d.
		In 1876 he commenced the publication of his great work, Handbuch der Palaeontologie, which was completed in 1893 in five volumes, the fifth volume on palaeobotany being prepared by WP Schimper and A Schenk.
		Dr Zittel was from 1899 president of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1894 he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London.
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