In 2006, the Geological Society of London awarded Lovelock the Wollaston Medal largely for his work on the Gaia theory.

Some, such as Lord Herbert of Cherbury and William Wollaston, held that souls exist, survive death, and in the afterlife are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life.

A mezzotint of Martha Washington, based on a 1757 portrait by John Wollaston ( painter ) | Wollaston

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 is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston.

* Josiah Quincy Mansion, former mansion in Wollaston Park, Quincy, Massachusetts, built and owned by a Josiah Quincy

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.

Going further south, Wollaston Islands and the south of Hoste Island are covered by sub antarctic tundra.

William Hyde Wollaston showed that electricity from voltaic piles had identical effects to those of electricity produced by friction.

* – Alembic Club reprint with some of Dalton's papers, along with some by William Hyde Wollaston and Thomas Thomson

In 1913 he won the studentship for archaeology established jointly by the University of London and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus Wollaston Franks.

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.

These lines are still called Fraunhofer lines in his honour-although they had previously been noted by Wollaston in 1802.

In the south, and pointing westwards, is the Wollaston Peninsula, separated from the island's central areas by Prince Albert Sound.

Wollaston starts with the assumption that religion and morality are identical, and labours to show that religion is " the pursuit of happiness by the practice of truth and reason.

Four years later, a party led by Captain Wollaston established a post on a low hill near the south shore of Quincy Bay east of present-day Black's Creek.

Wollaston became wealthy by developing the first physico-chemical method for processing platinum ore in practical quantities, and in the process of testing the device he discovered the elements palladium ( symbol Pd ) in 1803 and rhodium ( symbol Rh ) in 1803.

In 1881 he was awarded the Bigsby medal, and in 1901 the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London.

Martha Dandridge Custis in 1757: mezzotint by John Folwell ( 1863 ) after a portrait by John Wollaston

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.

In 1971 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London and in 1981 the David Linton Award of the British Geomorphological Research Group.

In 1839, he won the Wollaston Medal, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.

The young nation's artists generally emulated the style of British art, which they knew through prints and the paintings of English-trained immigrants such as John Smibert ( 1688 – 1751 ) and John Wollaston ( active 1742 – 75 ).

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.

Quincy Shore Drive travels in a northerly direction along the shore of Quincy Bay through Wollaston and into North Quincy, with much of its length abutting Wollaston Beach, then turns in a westerly direction upon intersecting with East Squantum Street and continues to meet Hancock Street at the Neponset River Bridge.

As for Quincy's other important city streets, Hancock Street begins at the southern extent of Quincy Center and travels north to Dorchester as a main commercial thoroughfare of Quincy Center, Wollaston and North Quincy.

In 2004, Dr. Martens began producing footwear again at the Cobbs Lane Factory in Wollaston, England.

They soon acquired 600 acres of land at Mount Wollaston, south of Boston in the area that later became Quincy, and also were granted Taylor's Island in the Boston harbor, where the Hutchinsons grazed their sheep.

Its northernmost station was North Quincy, with two others at Wollaston and Quincy Center.

* John Wheeler ( ironmaster ) ( died 1708 ), ironmaster from Wollaston, Stourbridge, England ; worked at Wilden Ironworks

** Hatchet Lake Denesuline First Nation ( also known as Lac la Hache Denesuline First Nation, located at Wollaston Lake, ca 354 km north of Flin Flon, Reserve: Lac la Hache # 220, ca.

* Etthen eldili dene ( Etthén heldélü Dené, Ethen-eldeli-‘ Caribou-Eaters ’), lived in the Taiga east of Lake Athabasca far east to Hudson Bay, at Reindeer Lake, Hatchet Lake ( also Axe Lake ), Wollaston Lake and Lac Brochet

Special Agent John Connolly frequently boasted to his fellow agents about how he had recruited Bulger at a late night meeting at Wollaston Beach inside an FBI issue car.

Over £ 70, 000 prize money, including the £ 25, 000 Charles Wollaston Award, is awarded each year at the Summer Exhibition.

The first excavation at Danebury was carried out in November 1859, under antiquarian Augustus Wollaston Franks.

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.

The State of Maryland commissioned him to replicate the historical portrait, by John Wollaston, of Daniel Carroll to be installed at the State House.

* Gerald Wollaston ( 1874 – 1957 ), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London

Wollaston was developed as a linear settlement starting at what is now Cobbs Lane moving past Bell End, Rotten Row, St Michaels ' Lane and down towards Strixton.

In 1788 Wollaston land was enclosed under an act of parliament, at the time David Hennell, a lace dealer from wollaston wrote " I lament that this field is now agoing to be enclosed.

* The well known BBC Radio 1 Disc jockey, John Peel, DJed at the Nag's Head pub ( now the Wollaston Inn ) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Reverend John Wollaston arrived at Fremantle in April 1841 and by May 1842 had proposed a plan to remove Aboriginal children from " the baneful influences of heathen customs " to schools where they would be educated at the cost of settler families who would then have the option of employing them as domestic servants.

The Crowe River heads south-southeast back into Hastings County at the township of Wollaston, passes through a-long ,-high and-wide gorge at The Gut Conservation Area, takes in the left tributary Green River, and reaches Tangamong Lake.