Nicknamed "the chief", Sir William Ramsay's achievements - he was dubbed the greatest chemical discoverer of his age - are being celebrated on Wednesday, when a blue memorial plaque commemorating ...

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Sir William Ramsay received the Noble Prize for Chemistry in 1904 for his work on the noble gases Credit: Getty - Contributor Ramsay was born in Glasgow on October 2, 1852, and made his name for ...

SIR WILLIAM NOBLE, who died on November 10 at the age of eighty-two, had devoted the whole of his active and strenuous life to the service of electrical communication, in which he rose from the ...

Sir William Ramsay: The noble chemist. Published. 9 February 2011. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing Media caption, How noble gases, discovered by a ...

The discovery of the noble gases was notable for both reshaping the periodic table and for their real-life usefulness. ... Sir William Ramsay died on 23 July 1916, after changing the periodic ...

As the International Year of Chemistry starts, one British scientist deserves special recognition. It was the discovery of a slight discrepancy in the density, or weight, between chemical and ...