Wollaston

Wollaston has the following meanings:

People:

• Ally Wollaston (* 2001), New Zealand cyclist
• George Buchanan Wollaston (1814–1899), English plant collector
• Sarah Wollaston (* 1962), British politician, member of the British House of Commons
• 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)

Also:

• Wollaston (moon crater) named after William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollaston (Quincy) , Quincy neighborhood in the Boston metropolitan area

See also:

• Wollaston Islands , archipelago in the south of Tierra del Fuego
• Wollaston Lake , a lake in Canada
• Wollaston Medal , a medal named in honor of William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollaston prism , a birefringence based prism named after William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollaston refractometer , a named after William Hyde Wollaston refractometer
• Wollaston wire , very thin wires made of platinum, named after William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollastonite , a mineral named after William Hyde Wollaston
• Cape Wollaston , Cape of Trinity Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica

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