William Ramsay
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Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous element
Ramsay in 1904
William Ramsay's Nobel Prize certificate
Blue plaque at 12 Arundel Gardens commemorating the work of William Ramsay
Xenon
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Xenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54. It is a dense, colorless, odorless noble gas found in Earth's atmosphere in trace amounts. Although generally unreactive, it can und
William Ramsay
…of argon. After the two men identified argon, Ramsay investigated other atmospheric gases. His work in isolating argon, helium, neon, krypton, and xenon led to the development of a new section of the periodic table. Ramsay was born at 2 Clifton Street in Glasgow on 2 October 1852, the son of civil…
A xenon-filled discharge tube glowing light blue
An acrylic cube specially prepared for element collectors containing a glass ampoule of liquefied xenon
A layer of solid xenon building inside a high voltage apparatus. The layer of solid xenon (white color) is surrounded by liquid xenon (transparent).
Liquid (featureless) and crystalline solid Xe nanoparticles produced by implanting Xe+ ions into aluminium at room temperature