William Hyde Wollaston
1766–1828
Physiologist, chemist, and physicist. Secretary, Royal Society of London, 1804–16. Member of the Board of Longitude, 1818–28. Bequeathed money to the Geological Society and the Royal Society. FRS 1793.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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