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, and a class of organic compounds known as the...

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 that he could make the vessels he needed for his lab...

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. Both his father, a civil engineer, William...

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" gases. A brilliant experimentalist rather than a theorist, and...

Sir William Ramsay (October 2, 1852 – July 23, 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air"...