William Ramsay
1852-1916
British Chemist
The most eminent British chemist of the late nineteenth century, William Ramsay won the 1904 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the socalled "noble"...
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The British chemist and educator Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916) discovered the rare gases and did important work in thermodynamics.William Ramsay was born at Queen's Crescent, Glasgow, on Oct. 2, 1852...
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The first two decades of William Ramsay's career were spent on a variety of comparatively insignificant studies, including work on the alkaloids, water loss in salts, the solubility of gases in solids...
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Besides winning the 1904 Nobel Prize for discovering a whole family of gases, William Ramsay did well at just about anything he tried--sports, languages, math, music. He even learned glassblowing so t...
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William Ramsay
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William Ramsay