Sir William Ramsay was one of the worlds leading scientists at the end of the 19th century, and in a spectacular period of research between 1894 and 1898, he discovered five new elements. These were ...

Sir William Ramsay, the Scottish chemist who discovered several noble gases, is the subject of today’s Google doodle. The noble gases are a group of chemical elements with very low reactivity. They ...

THE first scientific words, probably, ever printed from the pen of Sir William Ramsay read curiously now that the full chapter of his writings is closed. They served to introduce his career, and may, ...

German glassblower and physicist Heinrich Geissler creates sealed glass tubes with two electrodes; the electric current makes gases glow. 1898 Meet the New Gas British scientists Sir William Ramsay ...

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IT has been said that every man has in his own history the making of at least one romance. If by romance is implied not merely a work of fiction, but also a story which is both true and marvellous, ...