Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)

William Ramsay

Sir William Ramsay 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.

Born

1852

October 2

Died

1916

Era

1850s

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1916 Died

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829 Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
939 Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
1187 Saladin won Jerusalem after the city surrendered to his forces following a prolonged siege.
1263 The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.

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The world in 1916

When William departed

april 18 World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.
april 24 Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
april 24 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
april 25 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.

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