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In 1881, Ramsay was married to Margaret Johnstone Marshall (née Buchanan), daughter of George Stevenson Buchanan. They had a daughter, Catherine Elizabeth (Elska) and a son, William George, who died at 40. Ramsay lived in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire, until his death.
Sir William Ramsay was a British physical chemist who discovered four gases (neon, argon, krypton, xenon) and showed that they (with helium and radon) formed an entire family of new elements, the noble gases. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Chemistry in recognition of this achievement.
William Ramsay was born on October 2, 1852 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. His father was William Ramsay, a civil engineer. His mother was Catherine Robertson, a governess. Both parents were nearly forty when William was born, and he was their only child.
William Ramsay was born in Glasgow on October 2, 1852, the son of William Ramsay, C.E. and Catherine, née Robertson. He was a nephew of the geologist, Sir Andrew Ramsay. Until 1870 he studied in his native town, following this with a period in Fittig’s laboratory at Tübingen until 1872.
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay FBA (15 March 1851 – 20 April 1939) was a British archaeologist and New Testament scholar. He was the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor, and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament.
The Scottish chemist William Ramsay (1852–1916) is known for work that introduced a whole new group to the periodic table, variously called over time the inert, rare, or noble gases. William Ramsay as the personification of chemistry in Vanity Fair, 1908, chromolithograph, by Leslie Ward.
family’s history, his successors have been attributed with equally chivalrous and glamorous contributions to the family and to Scottish history. Sir William Ramsay of the Dalhousie is recorded by Fordun as having defeated the English at Nisbet Moor in 1355. In 1400 a later Sir Alexander Ramsay withstood a six month siege at Dalhousie laid by
