William Hyde Wollaston

William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingots.

6 August 1766

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Born in the same month (August 1766): Aaron Chorin