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William Ramsay

1852 - 1916

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Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 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" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for their discovery of argon. After the two men identified argon, Ramsay investigated other atmospheric gases. His work in isolating argon, helium, neon, krypton, and xenon led to the development of a new section of the periodic table. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Ramsay is the 19th most popular chemist (up from 22nd in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 167th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Chemist.

William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who lived in the late 1800s. He is most famous for his discovery of the noble gases and for the discovery of argon.

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Among chemists, William Ramsay ranks 19 out of 602. Before him are Svante Arrhenius, John Stith Pemberton, Edwin McMillan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Raymond Davis Jr., and August Kekulé. After him are Adolf Windaus, Ernst Chain, Eduard Buchner, John Macleod, George Washington Carver, and Fritz Haber.

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Among people born in 1852, William Ramsay ranks 7. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Albert A. Michelson, Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Emil Fischer. After him are Henri Moissan, Charles Taze Russell, Gojong of Korea, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Francisco Tárrega, and Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant. Among people deceased in 1916, William Ramsay ranks 5. Before him are Franz Joseph I of Austria, Grigori Rasputin, Jack London, and Henryk Sienkiewicz. After him are Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Ernst Mach, Élie Metchnikoff, Yuan Shikai, Charles Taze Russell, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, and Odilon Redon.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, William Ramsay ranks 147 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Morgan (1635), Rosalind Franklin (1920), Brian Josephson (1940), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), Nicholas Winton (1909), and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806). After him are J. M. W. Turner (1775), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Alan Rickman (1946), Marianne Faithfull (1946), and Thomas Andrews (1873).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Ramsay ranks 2. Before him are John Dalton (1766). After him are John Macleod (1876), Alexander R. Todd (1907), Robert Robinson (1886), Humphry Davy (1778), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Arthur Harden (1865), Archer Martin (1910), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Frederick Soddy (1877), and Francis William Aston (1877).

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