Person

William Ramsay

Scottish chemist

b. 1852 CE – d. 1916 CE World The Atlantic Lands

Sir William Ramsay KCB FRSE FRS (1852–1916) is a Scottish chemist who discovers the noble gases and receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" (along with Lord Rayleigh who receivesthe Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon).