Born at 2 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow. he studied in Tübingen and Glasgow. Following the discovery of helium, it occurred to him that there was room in the periodic table for a new eighth group of elements. This led to his discovery of argon and eventually the other 'noble' gases. Knighted in 1902 and awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in1904. He died at his home Beechcroft, Hazlemere near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
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Sir William Ramsay
English Heritage Sir William Ramsay, 1852-1916 chemist, discoverer of the nob...
Born Portsmouth. Geologist. Educated and taught at the Royal School of Mines. Died at 30 Cumberland Road, Kew.
Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived and worked mainly in London and Greenwich. He seems to have been a bitter man with whom it was unpleasant to do business...
Physician, geologist, political activist. Parkinson's disease is his. Born 1 Hoxton Square. Died at home, 3 Pleasant Row, Kingsland Road.
Physicist. Born in Ulm. He was proficient in maths and physics from an early age. By the time he was in his twenties he was publishing papers and was recognised as a leading scientist. In 1905, he ...
The plaque does not appear on the latest Google Street View (March 2019) so would have been erected after then.
Master of the Innholders' Company in 1950.
The two memorial stones are on the wall to the left of our photo, hidden by the foliage. They are in very good (as new) condition and we ...
Andrew Behan directed us to Coletti where we discovered that the plaque was "designed by Eric Bradbury and unveiled by Herbert Hunter JP,...
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