In 1904, Sir William Ramsay won the Chemistry Noble Prize.
Born: 2 October 1852 Glasgow, Scotland.
Died: 23 July 1916 High Wycombe, England.
Nationality: British.
Education: University of Glasgow (1866–69), Anderson’s University, now University of Strathclyde Glasgow (1869), University of Tübingen (Ph.D. 1873).
Known as: 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).
Fields: Chemistry.
