William Hyde Wollaston:
William Hyde Wollaston was a British chemist.
Birth:
August 6, 1766 in East Dereham, Norfolk, England
Death:
December 22, 1828 in London, England
Claim to Fame:
Wollaston was an British chemist who developed the first method of producing pure platinum from ore. He also discovered the elements palladium and rhodium while researching platinum. He was the first to observe the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum which led to the discovery of the elements in the Sun.
