William Ramsay
1852 - 1916
- Born
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02 October 1852
Queen's Crescent, Glasgow, Scotland
- Died
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23/07/1916
Hazlemere, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 07/06/1888
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 36
- Fields of Interest
- Physical chemistry
- Occupation
- Physical chemist
- Relationships
- Parents: William Ramsay, civil engineer, and Catharine Robertson. Spouse: Margaret Johnstone Marshall (d. 1936), daughter of George Stevenson Buchanan; nephew of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (FRS 1849), (1881). Children: Elizabeth Catherine (1883–1960), known as Elska, who married H. L. Tidy in 1906; and William George (1886–1927), died early of disseminated sclerosis.
- Catalogue
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Author of
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Unpublished paper, 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide. Part I: Gaseous ether' by W [William] Ramsay and E P [Edgar Philip] Perman
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: AP/67/4 -
Paper, 'Preliminary note on the continuity of the liquid and gaseous states of matter' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young
Creator: William Ramsay, Sydney Young Reference number: PP/10/2 -
Paper, 'Some suggestions regarding solutions' by William Ramsay
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: PP/17/21 -
Paper, 'The molecular surface-energy of the esters, showing its variation with chemical constitution' by William Ramsay and Emily Aston
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: PP/24/13 -
Paper, 'The complexity and the dissociation of the molecules of liquids' by William Ramsay
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: PP/24/14 -
Paper, 'The molecular surface-energy of mixtures of non-associating liquids' by William Ramsay and Emily Aston
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: PP/24/15
Referee of
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Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'On the specific heats of gases at constant volume.—Part I. Air, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen' by John Joly
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: RR/10/357 -
Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'Composition of haemocyanin' by A B Griffiths
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: RR/11/153 -
Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'On the mechanical stretching of liquids: an experimental determination of the volume-extensibility of ethyl-alcohol' by Arthur Mason Worthington
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: RR/11/225 -
Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'On the ratio of the specific heats of some compound gases' by J W Capstick
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: RR/12/291 -
Second referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'On the ratio of the specific heats of some compound gases' by J W Capstick
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: RR/12/293 -
Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'On the relations between the viscosity (internal friction) of liquids and their chemical nature.—Part II' by Thomas Edward Thorpe and J W Rodger
Creator: William Ramsay Reference number: RR/13/134