William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, 1908. Artist: Spy

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William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, 1908. Ramsay (1852-1916) discovered four of the inert gases, Neon, Argon, Krypton and Xenon, for which he won the the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1904. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, December 1908, showing Ramsay lecturing.

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