Wollaston

The term Wollaston has the following meanings:

Number of people:

• George Buchanan Wollaston (1814-1899), English plant collector
• Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822-1878), English entomologist and malacologist
• William Wollaston (1659-1724), English moral philosopher
• William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English physician, physicist and chemist.

Places in England:

• Wollaston ( Northamptonshire )
• Wollaston ( Shropshire )
• Wollaston (West Midlands )

In addition:

• Wollaston (crater ), named after William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollaston ( Quincy ), City of Quincy in the metropolitan Boston

See also:

• Wollaston Islands, in the south of Tierra del Fuego
• Wollaston Lake, a lake in Canada
• Wollaston Medal, one named in honor of William Hyde Wollaston Medal
• Wollaston prism, a system based on birefringence prism, named after William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollaston refractometer, a named after William Hyde Wollaston refractometer
• Wollaston wire, very thin wires of platinum, named after William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollastonite, a mineral named after William Hyde Wollaston

• Disambiguation