Editing William Hyde Wollaston (section)

==Legacy==
The following have been named in his honour:
* [[Wollaston Medal]]<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Wollaston, William Hyde |first1=Philip Joseph |last1=Hartog |first2=Charles Herbert |last2=Lees |volume=62}}</ref>
** [[List of Wollaston Medal recipients]]
* [[Wollaston (crater)|Wollaston]], a lunar impact crater<ref>{{cite web |url=https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/6570?__fsk=-2096519237 |title=Wollaston |website=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |publisher=United States Geological Society |access-date=20 December 2018 }}</ref>
* [[Wollaston Lake]], [[Saskatchewan, Canada]] a 2,681 square kilometre (1,035 sq mi) freshwater lake<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/wollaston-lake |title=Wollaston Lake |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |first=Daniel |last=Francis |date=8 July 2014 |access-date=20 December 2018 }}</ref>
* [[Wollaston Islands]], [[Chile]] are named for him<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.capehorn-pilot.com/immagini/Charts/10.7%20Cabo%20de%20Hornos.htm |chapter=Cabo de Hornos |title=Patagonia & Tierra del Fuego Nautical Guide |first1=Mariolina |last1=Rolfo |first2=Giorgio |last2=Ardrizzi |date=2007 |publisher=Incontri nautici |edition=2nd |isbn=978-88-85986-34-3 |url=http://www.capehorn-pilot.com/}}</ref>
* [[Wollaston Foreland]], NE Greenland.<ref name="cat">{{cite web|title=Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland |publisher=Geological Survey of Denmark |url=https://sciencedocbox.com/Geology/67887797-Exploration-history-and-place-names-of-northern-east-greenland.html | access-date = 9 July 2019}}</ref>
* [[Wollaston Peninsula]], Canada.<ref name="bartleby">{{cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/13/W04113.html|title=Wollaston Peninsula|date=2000|work=The Columbia Gazetteer of North America |publisher=bartleby.com|access-date=11 October 2008}}</ref>
* [[Wollastonite]], a chain silicate mineral<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Wollastonite |volume=28 |first=Leonard James |last=Spencer}}</ref>
* [[Wollaston wire]], extremely fine platinum wire<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zeiss.com/C12567A100537AB9/Contents-Frame/177A4B2FE53F8313C125695A0034012A |title=William Hyde Wollaston: Research in Physics, Chemistry and Physiology |publisher=Carl Zeiss AG |access-date=9 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727090010/http://www.zeiss.com/C12567A100537AB9/Contents-Frame/177A4B2FE53F8313C125695A0034012A |archive-date=27 July 2011 }}</ref>

It has been mentioned that Wollaston has not received the renown which should complement his historical standing in world of science: his contemporaries [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]], [[Humphry Davy]] and [[John Dalton]] have become far better-known.

Different reasons for this have been suggested, including that Wollaston himself was not systematic or conventional in presenting his discoveries, even publishing anonymously (initially) in the case of Palladium. Also, and perhaps more importantly for his modern legacy, privately held papers of his were inaccessible, and that his notebooks went missing shortly after his death and remained so for over a century; these were finally collated in the late 1960s at Cambridge University and the first comprehensive biography was completed by [[Melvyn Usselman]] in 2015, after over 30 years' research.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Isis: A journal of the History of Science Society|last=Levitt|first=Theresa|doi=10.1086/688432|volume=107|issue = 3|year=2016|pages=637–638|journal=Isis}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The Platinum Notebooks of William Hyde Wollaston|journal=Platinum Metals Review|year=1978|volume=22|page=100|last=Usselman|first=Melvyn C.|issue=3 |doi=10.1595/003214078X223100106 }}</ref>