William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828) | High Altitude …
2021-8-20 · William Hyde Wollaston was born on 6 August 1766 in East Dereham, Norfolk, UK. He obtained a doctorate in medicine from Cambridge in 1793. While practicing medicine for many years, he also became interested in chemistry, physics, crystallography and metallurgy, to which he devoted himself fully from 1800 onward.