William Ramsay

Sir William Ramsay
; Sir William Ramsay
Born	2 October 1852; Glesga, Scotland
Dee'd	23 Julie 1916 (aged 63); High Wycombe, Bucks., Ingland
Naitionality	Scots
Alma mater	Varsity o Glesga (1866-9); Anderson's Institution, Glasgow (1869); Varsity o Tübingen (PhD 1873)
Kent for	Noble gases
Awairds	Leconte Prize (1895); Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service tae Science (1895); Davy Medal (1895); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1904); Matteucci Medal (1907); Elliott Cresson Medal (1913)
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Varsity o Glesga (1874-80); Varsity College, Bristol (1880–87); Varsity College Lunnon (1887–1913)
Doctoral advisor	Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig
Doctoral students	Edward Charles Cyril Baly; James Johnston Dobbie; Jaroslav Heyrovský; Otto Hahn

Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE (1852–1916) wis a Breetish chemist who discovered the noble gases an received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recogneetion o his services in the discovery o the inert gaseous elements in air" (alang wi his collaborator, Laird Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Pheesics that same year for thair discovery o argon).

References

↑ Thorburn Burns, D. (2011). "Robert Rattray Tatlock (1837-1934), Public Analyst for Glasgow" (PDF). Journal of the Association of Public Analysts. 39: 38–43. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

[Thorburn_Burns-1] Thorburn Burns, D. (2011). "Robert Rattray Tatlock (1837-1934), Public Analyst for Glasgow" (PDF). Journal of the Association of Public Analysts. 39: 38–43. Retrieved 25 November 2011.

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