William Ramsay Facts
William Ramsay Facts
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| William Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| From 1870 to 1872 he studied in Tubingen, Germany. |
| He earned his PhD from the University of Tubingen with a thesis on orthotoluic acid. |
| In 1872 he returned to Glasgow and became a chemistry assistant at Anderson College. |
| In 1880 he became Principal and Professor of Chemistry at University College, Bristol. |
| From 1887 to his retirement in 1913 he was Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at University College, London. |
| Ramsay published papers on picoline and the decomposition products of quinine alkaloids. |
| Beginning in the 1880's he changed the focus of his work from organic chemistry to physical chemistry. |
| From 1886 to 1889 he collaborated with Sidney Young on studies of evaporation and dissociation. |
| Ramsay made many contributions to the fields of stoichiometry and thermodynamics. |
| Between 1885 and 1890 he published important papers on the oxides of nitrogen and his discoveries of argton, helium, neon, krypton, and xenon. |
| At the 1894 meeting of the British Association Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh announced the discovery of argon. |
| Ramsay found the inert gases by methodically searching for the missing elements in the periodic table. |
| In 1903 he detected helium in radium emanations. |
| Ramsay received numerous awards including the Davy and Longstaff Medals, the Barnardo Medal, a prize of $5,000 from the Smithsonian Institution, and the A.W. Hoffman medal in gold. |
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