William Ramsay

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 (along with Lord Rayleigh who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon).Ramsay was born in Glasgow, the son of William Ramsay, C.E. and Catherine, née Robertson. He was a nephew of the geologist Sir Andrew Ramsay.He attended school as a child at The Glasgow Academy and then continued his studies at the University of Glasgow under Thomas Anderson and then went to study in Germany at the University of Tübingen with Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig where his doctoral thesis was entitled "Investigations in the Toluic and Nitrotoluic Acids". He returned to Glasgow as Anderson's assistant at the Anderson College. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University College of Bristol in 1879 and married Margaret Buchanan in 1881. In the same year he became the Principal of the Bristol and somehow managed to combine that with active research both in organic chemistry and on gases.
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William Ramsay (Glasgow, 2 octobre 1852 - High Wycombe, 13 juillet 1916) était un chimiste britannique, prix Nobel de chimie en 1904.
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Sir William Ramsay (* 2. Oktober 1852 in Glasgow; † 23. Juli 1916 in High Wycombe) war ein schottischer Chemiker und Nobelpreisträger.
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Sir William Ramsay (ur. 2 października 1852 w Glasgow, Szkocja, zm. 23 lipca 1916 w High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Anglia) - brytyjski chemik i fizyk. W latach 1880 – 87 profesor chemii uniwersytetu w Bristolu, a w latach 1887 – 1913 pracował w Londynie. Od 1888 członek Royal Society. Początkowo zajmował się fizjologicznym działaniem alkaloidów. Następnie prowadził prace badawcze nad gazami szlachetnymi. Odkrył argon z J.W.Rayleighem w roku 1894, hel w 1895, krypton, ksenon i neon z M. Traversem w 1898. Wspólnie z F. Soddym, dowiódł, że hel jest produktem rozpadu radu.
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Fu allievo di Rudolf Fittig a Tubinga, dove si laureò nel 1872. Dopo aver insegnato per due anni nella città natale, nel 1874 divenne assistente all' Università di Tubinga; nel 1884 ebbe la cattedra di chimica all' Università di Bristol e dal 1887 fino al 1913 occupò la cattedra di chimica inorganica all'University College di Londra.
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