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William Hyde Wollaston PRS (; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingots.〔Melvyn C. Usselman: (William Hyde Wollaston ) Encyclopedia Britannica, retrieved 31 March 2013〕 ==Biography== Wollaston was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, the son of the priest-astronomer Francis Wollaston (1737–1815) and his wife Althea Hyde. The family, which included 17 children, was financially well-off and were part of an intellectually stimulating environment. Wollaston was educated at Charterhouse School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge: in 1793 he obtained a doctorate in medicine from Cambridge University, and was a fellow of his college from 1787 to 1828.〔 He worked as a physician in rural areas between 1793 and 1797, then moved to London.〔 During his studies, Wollaston had become interested in chemistry, crystallography, metallurgy and physics. In 1800, after he had received a large sum of money from one of his older brothers, he left medicine. He concentrated on pursuing his interests in chemistry and other subjects outside his trained vocation. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1793, where he became an influential member. He served as president in 1820.〔 In 1822 he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterW.pdf )〕 Wollaston never married. He died in London in 1828 and was buried in Chislehurst, England.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Hyde Wollaston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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