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Born October 2, 1852 • Glasgow • Scotland
Died July 23, 1916 (aged 63) • High Wycombe • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1904)
Subjects Of Study argon • helium • krypton • neon • noble gas • radon • xenon

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William Ramsay
Ramsay, Sir William
argon isolation
Nobel Prize: chemical elements discovered by winners
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Tsien, Roger Y.
Roger Y. Tsien
American chemist
Daniel Shechtman
Daniel Shechtman
Israeli chemist
Martin Chalfie
American chemist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Shimomura, Osamu
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist
Moissan, 1906
Henri Moissan
French chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Stoddart, J. Fraser
J. Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
John Walker
British chemist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Michael Smith
Canadian chemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Sir Harold W. Kroto
British chemist

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