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Sir William Ramsay

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Sir William Ramsay is a Scottish Chemist. He was born on October 2nd, 1852 in Glasgow. He died at the age of July 23rd 1916 when he was 63 years old, at High Wycombe, Bucks England from nasal cancer. His uncle was a famous geologist, Sir Andrew Ramsay. Sir William Ramsay attended Glasgow and then went to University of Glasgow. Later on his years he went to study in Germany at the University of Tubingen. His parents were William Ramsay, C.E. and Catherine, nee Robertson. The University in Germany were his doctoral thesis was entitled ``investigations in the Toluic and Nitrotoluic Acids``. He later went back to Glasgow to become assistance at the Anderson College. In 1879 appointed Professor of Chemistry at U of Bristol. During 1881 he married Margaret Buchanan. Coincidently at that year he also become Principal of the Bristol and yet managed to experiment and research in both organic and gas chemistry. During 1885- 1890 Sir William Ramsay published numerous amount of notable papers on the oxides of nitrogen that would develop the skills that he would need for his subsequent work. His high standing and knowledge in scientific circles led to his downfall in 1905, his ill-fated endorsement of the industrial and Engineering Trust Ltd. The corporation business had a secret mission which was to exact gold from sea water. 

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  ·  Ramsay`s has a high standing in the scientific world which led to this unfortunate endorsement event in 1905 which has been discussed about in the previous paragraph. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  His death was caused by nasal cancer <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  Sir William Ramsay`s School based in Hazleere in High Wycombe. The school was named after him. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  His earliest work was in organic chemistry. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  Ramsay laboratory work resulted to the discover of argon. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  He won the Noble Gas Award <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  He contributed to a number of honourable memberships, viz. at a institute in France, Ireland, Netherlands, Rome, Petrograd, Turin, Romania, Vienna, Norway, Sweden, Frankfurt, Mexico and Germany, London, Paris, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  He also entered the Pharmaceutical Society, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Philosophical Societies <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  He received the Barnardo Medal and a prize worth of $5,000 from the Institute of Smithsonian <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  He also received a prize from France = Fr. 25 000. this prize was shared together with Moissan <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  He won a A.W. Hoffmann Medal in Gold at 1903 in Berlin. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  In 1902 he was crowned Knight Commander of the order of Bath. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  Sir William Ramsay is also known as the knight of the Prussian order `pour le merite`. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  He was a commander in Italy. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  He was an officer of the Legionn d`Honneur of France

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: Andalus; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 36.0pt">Major Experiments, Contributions, or Discoveries <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">

__**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Andalus; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Andalus; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Sir William contributed to building a school based in Hazleere in High Wycombe. He also contributed to a great amount of time to many places, such as, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Rome, Petrograd, Turin, Romanian, Vienna, Norway, Sweden, Frankfurt, Mexico, Germany, London and Paris <span style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Andalus; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> **__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Andalus; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Discovery __**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">

<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Andalus; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">A major discovery was that he contributed to the discovery of Argon. Also in 1895 he discovered the exsitence of helium. After researching and working on Mendelee`s periodic system he discovered new elements. In 1898 he found neon, krypton and xenon. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Andalus; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">**__experiment__** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Andalus; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Sir William Ramsay has done may research and experiment to discover many of unknown substances, Without further experimentation and research there was absolutely no other achieving way to discover what he had discover for example what he discovered was xenon, krypton, argon, helium etc, and the noble gas. Due to his experiments he found a number of discoveries which now makes him history.

References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ramsay http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1904/ramsay-bio.html http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/resources/history/people/ramsay.html http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sir_William_Ramsay