William Ramsay

<p>Sir William Ramsay <a href="/facts/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath/as761RvN">KCB</a> <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society/cWs8TdC5">FRS</a> <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh/6T9ftn3H">FRSE</a>  was a Scottish chemist who discovered the <a href="/facts/Noble_gases/j0yHMEAE">noble gases</a> and received the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry/8Nb8Ajjy">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, <a href="/facts/John_William_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh/HcJyYdk5">John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh</a>, who received the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> that same year for their discovery of <a href="/facts/Argon/QX6NRH6d">argon</a>. After the two men identified argon, Ramsay investigated other atmospheric gases. His work in isolating argon, <a href="/facts/Helium/yRul93TG">helium</a>, <a href="/facts/Neon/5bF1FwGL">neon</a>, <a href="/facts/Krypton/llkNlCke">krypton</a>, and <a href="/facts/Xenon/9E3XR69R">xenon</a> led to the development of a new section of the <a href="/facts/Periodic_table/umdGIfUb">periodic table</a>.
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William Ramsay