William Ramsay

Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE
Ramsay in 1904
Born	(1852-10-02)2 October 1852 Glasgow, Scotland
Died	23 July 1916(1916-07-23) (aged 63) High Wycombe, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Glasgow (1866–69) Anderson's University, now University of Strathclyde Glasgow (1869)[1] University of Tübingen (PhD 1873)
Known for	Discovering noble gases
Awards	Leconte Prize (1895) Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1895) Davy Medal (1895) Longstaff Prize (1897) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1904) Matteucci Medal (1907) Elliott Cresson Medal (1913)
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of Glasgow (1874–80) University College, Bristol (1880–87) University College London (1887–1913)
Doctoral advisor	Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig
Doctoral students	Edward Charles Cyril Baly James Johnston Dobbie Jaroslav Heyrovský

Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE (/ˈræmzi/; 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.^[2]