William Ramsay:
William Ramsay was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 2, 1852 in Glasgow, Scotland
Death:
July 23, 1916 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Claim to Fame:
Ramsay was a British chemist who discovered the four gases neon, argon, krypton and xenon. He also determined they belonged with helium and radon to form a family of gases called the noble gases. This discovery would earn him the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
