1. While in London Thomson met William Hyde Wollaston and Humphry Davy. 2. He also made instruments for the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston . 3. In 1804 William Hyde Wollaston invented a positive meniscus lens for eyeglasses. 4. The principle was also championed by some chemists such as William Hyde Wollaston . 5. The term " bicarbonate " was coined in 1814 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston . 6. In 1809, the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston wrongly concluded that tantalum and columbium were identical. 7. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston . 8. Helmholtz also noted that there was evidence of oscillation from the electrolysis experiments of William Hyde Wollaston . 9. In 1808, he launched an attack on John Smeaton and William Hyde Wollaston 's work championing the theory. 10. The "'Wollaston landscape lens "', named for William Hyde Wollaston , was a aberrations.