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The Wollaston medal was awarded to him in 1904 by the Geological Society of London, and in 1905 he was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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In recognition of his important researches the Geological Society of London in 1857 awarded to him the Wollaston medal.
In 1881 he was awarded the Bigsby medal, and in 1901 the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London.
The learned societies of his own country bestowed their highest rewards upon him: the Royal Society gave him the Copley medal, the Geological Society its Wollaston medal, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh its Brisbane Medal.
In 1853 the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society of London was awarded to him, and in 1860 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.
He was knighted in 1848 and, near the close of his life he was awarded the Wollaston medal.
* Wollaston medal for Geology: Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck
He was president of the Geological Society ( 1876-1877 ), and in 1881 was awarded the Wollaston medal.
* Élie de Beaumont ( 1798 – 1874 ), founder of geology, Wollaston medal 1843
He was awarded the Telford Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1859, followed by the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society of London in 1877, the Society's highest award.
For his many contributions to geological science, Blanford was in 1883 awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London.
In 1843 he received, along with Élie de Beaumont, the Wollaston medal from the Geological Society of London.
William Lonsdale ( 9 September 1794, Bath – 11 November 1871, Bristol ), English geologist and palaeontologist, won the Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals.
For this great work and his other services to science he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society in 1854.
He was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London, in 1879.
In England he was one of the pioneers in petrography ; he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London in 1869, and became its President.
He was elected fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1852 and in 1865 awarded their Wollaston medal.
In 1870 the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society of London was awarded to him.
During a great part of his career Heer was hampered by slender means and ill-health, but his services to science were acknowledged in 1873 when the Geological Society of London awarded to him the Wollaston medal.
In recognition of this work the Wollaston medal was awarded to him in 1875 by the Geological Society of London, and in 1876 he was appointed professor of palaeontology at Liège.
Egerton described the structure and affinities of numerous species in the publications of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Magazine and the Decades of the Geological Survey ; and in recognition of his services the Wollaston medal was awarded to him in 1873 by the Geological Society.
In 1882 he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London.
The Geological Society of London awarded him in 1840 the Wollaston medal.
His chief work was A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca ( 1848 – 1856 ), published by the same society, for which he was awarded the Wollaston medal in 1860 by the Geological Society of London ; a supplement was issued by him in 1872-1874, a second in 1879, and a third ( edited by his son ) in 1882.
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He was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1858 and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1866.
In 1836 the Wollaston Medal was awarded to Agassiz by the council of that society for his work on fossil ichthyology ; and in 1838 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.
It was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston in one such ore, and named for the rose color of one of its chlorine compounds, produced after it reacted with the powerful acid mixture aqua regia.
Rhodium ( Greek rhodon ( ῥόδον ) meaning " rose ") was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, soon after his discovery of palladium.
The first evidence of quantized energy levels in atoms was the observation of spectral lines in light from the sun in the early 1800s by Joseph von Fraunhofer and William Hyde Wollaston.
It was not until February 1831 that the Geological Society of London conferred on Smith the first Wollaston Medal in recognition of his achievement.
Located in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts, about north of Plymouth, the settlement was officially known as Mount Wollaston, but soon earned the nickname " Merrymount.
William Wollaston ( 26 March 1659 – 29 October 1724 ) was an English philosophical writer.
He was born to a family long-established in Staffordshire, and was distantly related to Sir John Wollaston, the Alderman and Lord Mayor of London.
This settlement was named Mount Wollaston in honor of the leader, who soon after 1625 left the area bound for Virginia.
Historically, before incorporation when it was called " Mount Wollaston " and later as the " North Precinct " of Braintree, Quincy roughly began at the Neponset River in the north and ended at the Fore River in the south.
* Wollaston, named for Captain Richard Wollaston, the leader of Quincy's original settlers, was an early rail-accessed commuter home for Boston workers that is now a densely populated residential and commercial area and site of Eastern Nazarene College.
William Hyde Wollaston FRS ( 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828 ) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.
Wollaston was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, the son of the priest-astronomer Francis Wollaston ( 1737 – 1815 ) and his wife Althea Hyde.
Wollaston died in London in 1828 and was buried in Chislehurst, England.
Anders Gustav Ekeberg discovered tantalum in 1802, however, William Hyde Wollaston declared it was identical with niobium ( then known as columbium ).
By changing the shape of the lens, Wollaston was able to project a flatter image, eliminating much of the distortion that was a problem with many of that day's biconvex lenses.
Wollaston was too ill to deliver his final Bakerian in 1828 and dictated it to Henry Warburton who read it on 20 November.
On August 4, 2009, Dr Sarah Wollaston was chosen by Open Primary as the Conservative Party candidate for Totnes, for the 2010 general election, the first time such a mechanism has been used to pick a prospective candidate for an election in the UK.
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