William Ramsay
1852 CE–1916 CE · Glasgow
Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a British 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.
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- Jacobus van 't Hoff· 1852 CE–1911 CE
- Henri Becquerel· 1852 CE–1908 CE
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- Paul Ehrlich· 1854 CE–1915 CE
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- Andrey Markov· 1856 CE–1922 CE
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- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
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- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
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