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Ramsay (SIR WILLIAM a British)

SIR WILLIAM, a British scientist; born in Glasgow in 1852. He received his doctor's degree at Tübingen when he was but 20 years of age, and a few years later became Professor of Chemistry at the University College, Bristol. In 1887 he was appointed to the chair of chemistry in the University College, London, a position he held until he retired in 1913. He made several important discoveries in chemistry, mostly in connection with air, discovering argon, RAMSBOTTOM neon, xenon, and krypton, all constituents of the atmosphere. He has written several important works, among them "The Gases of the Atmosphere: the History of Their Discovery" (1905); "Introduction to the Study of Physical Chemistry"; "Elements of Electrons."

He died in 1916.