William Ramsay KCBE, FRS

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1904

Inorganic, Organic, Physical chemist. Outstanding experimentalist. Discovered inert gaseous elements in air, determined their place in periodic system. Discovered argon, helium, krypton, neon, xenon. Molecular weights in liquid state. Stoichiometry, thermodynamics. Helium in radium emanations.

"Noblest exercise of mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study."

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Sir William Ramsay Author: Elliott & Fry. Wikimedia Commons.

William Ramsay working. Wikimedia Commons

Ramsay working in the snow. Source: UCL Special Collections.

Sir William Ramsay standing in his laboratory, c 1900. Science & Society Picture Library. © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library.

Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh, Collaborator & Physics Nobelist 1904, in 1894. Source: Science and Society Picture library prints. © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library.

The Chemistry Nobel Prize Certificate of William Ramsay. Source: Museums and Collections, University College London. Author: Sofia Gisberg (1854-1926). Wikimedia Commons.

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