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Authorised form of nameRamsay; Sir; William (1852 - 1916); physical chemist
Dates1852 - 1916
NationalityBritish
Place of birthQueen's Crescent, Glasgow, Scotland
Date of birth02 October 1852
Place of deathHazlemere, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Date of death23/07/1916
Dates and placesBurial: Holy Trinity Church, Hazlemere, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England (26 July 1916)
Occupationphysical chemist
Research fieldPhysical chemistry
ActivityEducation:
University of Glasgow (1866-69); Anderson's University, Glasgow (1869); PhD (Tubingen)
Career:
Assistant, Chemical Department, Glasgow University (1874); Professor of Chemistry, University of Bristol (1881); Professor of General Chemistry, University College, London (1887-1902); died of cancer.
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1904
Honours:
KCB 1902
Memberships:
FCS; FIC
Awards/Medals:
Leconte Prize 1895
Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science 1895
Longstaff Prize 1897
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1904
Matteucci Medal 1907
Elliott Cresson Medal 1913
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1888
Age at election36
ProposerHarold Baily Dixon
Raphael Meldola
Archibald Liversidge
George Carey Foster
Isaac Bayley Balfour
John Beddoe
Walter Noel Hartley
Herbert McLeod
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Hugo Muller
Frederick Guthrie
John Gray McKendrick
George Francis Fitzgerald
William AugustusTilden
Henry Edward Armstrong
John HallGladstone
Lyon Playfair
George Downing Liveing
Henry Enfield Roscoe
William Henry Perkin
Edward Frankland
Alexander Crum Brown
William Thomson
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1895
RelationshipsParents: 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.
Published worksRCN 60226
RCN 60227
RCN R66365
RCN 60235
RCN R66363
RCN 60229
RCN 60228
RCN 21728
General contextDiscovered the noble gases: argon, helium, neon, crypton, and xenon.
Known for Ramsay grease, a vacuum grease, used as lubrication and sealant of ground glass jonts and cocks on laboratory glassware.
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1916-1917 vol 93 pp xlii-liv, plate, signed by J N C
References:
Lawrence Badash, 'British and American Views of the German Menace in World War I' in NR 1979-80 vol 34 pp 91-121
Sir Harold Hartley, 'The Ramsay Centenary' in NR 1953 vol 10 pp 71-80, plate
Vanity Fair 02 December 1908 - "Chemistry" by 'Spy'
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159
W van der Kloot, 'April 1915: Five Future Nobel Prize-Winners Inaugurate Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Academic-Industrial-Military Complex' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 149-160
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/61643201
Royal Society codeNA6172
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MC/20/302Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison13 October 1905
MS/743/1/170Letter from William Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, to Miss Gladstone25 February 1912
MS/525/6/1/9Letter from William Ramsay, The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, to [C V] Boys21 October 1915
CMB/36/8Copy, letter from Sir William Ramsay of the Chemical Sub-committee to [Dr Arthur Schuster], Secretary of the Royal Society22 December 1914
NLB/40/759Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Joseph Larmor, Sec RS 6 August 1909
IM/003737Ramsay, Sir William1912
IM/Maull/003736Ramsay, Sir Williamnd
CMB/28Chemistry War Committee1914 to 1918
NLB/1/526Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor [William] Ramsay19 July 1887
NLB/6/15Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society10 February 1892
NLB/5/196Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society, Belmont, Kilcreggan, Dunbartonshire11 April 1891
NLB/5/1259Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society5 February 1892
NLB/5/164Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]6 April 1891
NLB/6/1002Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1892
NLB/5/329Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]15 May 1891
NLB/5/333Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society20 May 1891
NLB/51/24Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS20 November 1914
RR/13/134Referee'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 RodgerJuly 1896
NLB/24/455Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society22 May 1902
NLB/8/359Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons 9 October 1893
NLB/10/704Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor [William] Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society23 January 1895
NLB/11/35Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society5 April 1895
NLB/8/1008Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society, 12 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, W.9 February 1894
NLB/10/682Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, President of the Chemical Society, Bonn, Germany19 January 1895
NLB/10/735Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society, University College, Green Street, London, W.C.28 January 1895
NLB/10/917Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society6 March 1895
NLB/11/512Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harrison & Sons16 July 1895
NLB/11/143Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society29 April 1895
NLB/11/752Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester1 October 1895
NLB/11/230Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society17 May 1895
NLB/11/982Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Joseph Flach, 16 Water Lane, Great Tower Street, E.C. 12 November 1895
NLB/11/473Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons10 July 1895
NLB/11/514Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Crookes, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1895
NLB/11/618Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Collings and Company14 August 1895
NLB/11/644Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society23 August 1895
NLB/23/2/6Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Professor [William] Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society and Dr M W Travers, University College, W.C.23 January 1901
NLB/11/943Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society7 November 1895
NLB/11/944Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Royal Mint7 November 1895
NLB/13/52Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1896
NLB/12/559Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society13 March 1896
NLB/12/241Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsey, Fellow of the Royal Society13 January 1896
NLB/12/295Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]24 January 1896
NLB/13/466Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Elmer G Still, Livermore, Alameda Company, California, United States of America19 September 1896
NLB/12/556Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harrison & Sons13 March 1896
NLB/12/298Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Fellow of the Royal Society24 January 1896
NLB/13/786Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society25 November 1896
NLB/13/813Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]1 December 1896
NLB/13/803Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society27 November 1896
NLB/12/621Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society24 March 1896
NLB/14/431Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society10 March 1897
NLB/14/896Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society1 June 1897
NLB/16/266Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor W Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society, 12 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, W.3 March 1898
NLB/52/413Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor I. Gollanoz, Secretary of the British Academy1 December 1915
NLB/15/45Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society11 June 1897
RR/15/133Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'The ionisation of dilute solution at the freezing point' by William Cecil Dampier WhethamFebruary 1900
NLB/15/44Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to R Stewart Bain11 June 1897
NLB/15/16Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society4 June 1897
NLB/16/122Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor W Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society5 January 1898
NLB/18/185Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [W] Ramsay2 February 1899
NLB/23/1/542Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society29 November 1901
NLB/16/529Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor W Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1898
NLB/15/789Copy letters sent from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society10 December 1897
NLB/15/696Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society19 November 1897
NLB/16/87Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor W Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society28 January 1898
NLB/17/599Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society23 November 1898
NLB/17/662Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Rucker, [Fellow of the Royal Society]3 December 1898
NLB/28/616Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society19 April 1904
NLB/16/872Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor W Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society24 June 1898
NLB/17/695Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay8 December 1898
NLB/17/790Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor William Ramsay, [Fellow of the Royal Society] 20 December 1898
NLB/17/782Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1898
NLB/18/325Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor W Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society22 February 1899
NLB/18/337Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1899
NLB/19/769Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Assistant Editor, 'The Electrician', 1 Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E.C.14 December 1899
NLB/21/347Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society2 November 1900
NLB/20/709Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott, Fellow of the Royal Society22 June 1900
NLB/21/632Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society20 December 1900
NLB/23/1/476Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society18 November 1901
NLB/23/2/476Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Frederick Soddy, [Fellow of the Royal Society]5 May 1904
NLB/29/120Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society8 July 1904
NLB/30/407Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society20 March 1905
NLB/45/495Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay KCBMarch 1912
NLB/30/508Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1905
NLB/28/853Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society6 June 1904
NLB/34/44Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1906
NLB/32/552Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society2 April 1906
MC/21/515Letter from [William] Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regents Park, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison27 October 1906
NLB/33/679Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society19 October 1906
NLB/34/79Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society24 November 1906
NLB/36/94Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park10 August 1907
NLB/35/150Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1907
NLB/39/97Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Sir W [Willaim] Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society26 November 1908
NLB/34/704Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society27 February 1907
NLB/34/865Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to [William] Ramsay, [Fellow of the Royal Society]20 March 1907
NLB/37/50Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS16 January 1908
NLB/39/175Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Sir William Ramsay5 December 1908
NLB/36/751Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society11 December 1907
NLB/39/193Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society8 December 1908
NLB/39/304Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor Joseph Larmor23 December 1908
NLB/37/701Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] Larmor, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of the Royal Society4 May 1908
NLB/38/337Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1908
NLB/43/76Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society2 November 1910
NLB/42/230Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to [William] Ramsay]28 April 1910
NLB/40/155Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Joseph] Larmor, Sec RS26 April 1909
NLB/42/170Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Herr Dr Rudorff18 April 1910
NLB/44/263Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir W [William] Ramsay KCB, FRS 1 June 1911
NLB/43/261Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society1 December 1910
NLB/42/145Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS 13 April 1910
NLB/42/153Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Frederick Treves GCVO, KCVO, &c14 April 1910
NLB/42/277Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Miss L F Homfray, 16 Church Row, Hampstead4 May 1910
NLB/41/632Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society26 January 1910
MC/25/43Letter from F.P Burt, Chemical Department, University College, Gower Street, London, W. C, to The Secretaries, Royal Society21 May 1910
MC/20/299Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison3 April 1905
NLB/43/365Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1910
NLB/43/290Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1910
NLB/45/378Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir W [William] Ramsay KCB, FRS26 February 1912
NLB/45/716Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay, KCB, FRS29 April 1912
NLB/45/545Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay, KCB, FRS, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, NW26 March 1912
NLB/45/405Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS29 February 1912
NLB/47/542Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay, KCB, FRS18 February 1913
NLB/48/402Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society28 June 1913
NLB/51/162Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS23 December 1914
NLB/51/3Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS19 November 1914
MS/929/1/158Letter from William Ramsay, FRS, University College, Gower Street, London, to James Mackenzie Davidson16 November 1913
NLB/53/203aCopy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to Lady Ramsay25 May 1916
RR/18/191Referee's report by William Augustus Tilden, on a paper 'The atomic weight of radium' by Robert Whytlaw-Gray and William Ramsay6 January 1912
RR/9/390Referee's report by Alexander Crum Brown, on a paper 'On the vapour pressures of ether' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young4 December 1886
RR/9/387Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on two papers 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part II - A study of the thermal properties of alcohol' and 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part I' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young29 December 1885
RR/9/389Referee's report by James Dewar, on a paper 'On the vapour pressures of ether' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young14 August 1886
RR/9/236Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'Influence of change of condition from the liquid to the solid state on vapour-pressure' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young24 June 1884
NLB/53/526Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John] Norman Collie, FRS24 October 1916
MS/929/1/161Letter from William Ramsay, FRS, Beechcroft, Hazlemere, Bucks, to James Mackenzie Davidson19 February 1915
MS/929/1/159Postcard from William Ramsay, FRS, London, to James Mackenzie Davidson23 December 1913
RR/11/80Referee's report by Arthur William Rucker on a paper 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide' by William Ramsay and E P Perman22 June 1891
RR/9/181Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The influence of pressure on the temperature of volatilization of solids' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young24 August 1883
RR/9/180Referee's report by Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'The influence of pressure on the temperature of volatilization of solids' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young12 July 1883
RR/9/237Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'Influence of change of condition from the liquid to the solid state on vapour-pressure' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young1 September 1884
MS/929/2/6Copy Letter from James Mackenzie Davidson, 26 Park Crescent, to William [Ramsay], FRS29 October 1913
RR/11/79Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide' by William Ramsay and E P Perman3 April 1891
RR/11/199Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On some of the properties of water and of steam' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young9 January 1892
AP/67/4/2Unpublished diagram, experimental apparatus by William Ramsay and E P [Edgar Philip] Perman1891
MS/929/1/157Letter from William Ramsay, FRS, University College, Gower Street, London, to James Mackenzie Davidson7 February 1910
RR/12/293Second referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'On the ratio of the specific heats of some compound gases' by J W Capsticknd [1895]
RR/13/233Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'On the occlusion of hydrogen and oxygen by palladium' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields8 January 1898
RR/12/367Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black. - Part I' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields9 August 1895
RR/13/98Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide' by E P Perman, William Ramsay and J. Rose-Innes1896
RR/12/366Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black. - Part I' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields3 July 1895
RR/12/291Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'On the ratio of the specific heats of some compound gases' by J W Capsticknd [1895]
RR/13/99Second referee's report by Arthur William Rucker, on a paper 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide' by E P Perman, William Ramsay and J. Rose-Innes1896
RR/15/19Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'Some new observations on the static diffusion of gases and liquids and their significance in certain natural processes occurring in plants' by Horace Tabberer Brown and F EscombeJune 1900
RR/13/232Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on a paper 'On the occlusion of hydrogen and oxygen by palladium' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields14 December 1897
RR/13/230Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields27 July 1897
RR/13/231Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields3 August 1897
RR/10/208Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation.—Part VIII. A study of the thermal properties of propyl alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young17 October 1888
RR/13/300Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'On a new method of determining the vapour pressures of solutions' by E B H Wade5 May 1897
NLB/19/751Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, Professor William Ramsay, [Fellow of the Royal Society]11 December 1899
EC/1888/20Ramsay, Sir William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/6/1023Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society4 October 1892
NLB/12/536Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Secretary, Philosophical Society, 207 Bath Street, Glasgow 9 March 1896
NLB/14/401Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Rucker, Secretary, Royal Society5 March 1897
RR/16/270Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper, 'The combination of hydrogen & oxygen in contact with hot surfaces' by William Arthur Bone and R V WheelerJanuary 1906
NLB/15/235Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]21 July 1897
NLB/15/615Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor William Ramsay, [Fellow of the Royal Society]4 November 1897
NLB/17/92Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society14 July 1898
NLB/16/708Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor W Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society24 May 1898
NLB/19/772Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Dr Waldeyer, Secretary, Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften , Berlin 14 December 1899
NLB/22/324Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William] Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1901
NLB/30/360Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society11 March 1905
NLB/32/70Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee20 December 1905
NLB/29/671Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society22 November 1904
NLB/40/693Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Joseph Larmor, Secretary RS 19 July 1909
NLB/42/132Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor G [George] D [Downing] Liveing FRS 9 April 1910
NLB/51/174Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS4 January 1915
MS/929/1/160Letter from William Ramsay, FRS, Beechcroft, Hazlemere, Bucks, to James Mackenzie Davidson17 February 1915
RR/10/209Second referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation.—Part VIII. A study of the thermal properties of propyl alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Youngnd [1888]
RR/11/225Referee'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 Worthington10 March 1892
RR/13/96bisReferee's report by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide' by E P Perman, William Ramsay and J. Rose-Innes2 February 1897
RR/10/77Second referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young5 May 1887
RR/10/76Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young26 March 1887
NLB/39/176Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary of the Royal Society7 December 1908
RR/9/388Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on two papers 'On the vapour-densities of alcohol' and 'On the vapour pressures of ammonium chloride' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young20 February 1886
RR/11/200Referee's report by Arthur William Rucker, on a paper 'On some of the properties of water and of steam' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young14 January 1892
MC/18/183Letter from Morris [William] Travers, University College, London, to Dr [Joseph] Larmor25 June 1903
PP/24/14Paper, 'The complexity and the dissociation of the molecules of liquids' by William Ramsay1894
VF/32Portrait of Sir William Ramsay by Sir Leslie Ward02 December 1908
MDA/C/12/2/16Circular letter from Frederick Thomas Trouton, Physical Department, University College, London, to members of the Physical and Chemical Commitee of the Royal Society20 December 1904
RR/12/22Letter from William Ramsay, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The variation of molecular surface-energy with temperature' by William Ramsay and John Shields3 June 1893
RR/16/127Referee's report by William Ramsay, on paper 'The dependence of the Refractive Index of gases on temperature' by George Walker WalkerMarch 1903
AP/67/4Unpublished paper, 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide. Part I: Gaseous ether' by W [William] Ramsay and E P [Edgar Philip] Perman1891
RR/10/207Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation.—Part VIII. A study of the thermal properties of propyl alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young7 August 1888
PP/16/3/1Manuscript, 'Experiments on vapour-density' by Edgar Philip Perman1890
AP/67/10Unpublished paper, 'On the constitution of the terpenes, camphors and camphor acids' by J [John] Norman Collie1891
RR/10/357Referee'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 Jolynd [1890]
RR/11/153Referee's report by William Ramsay, on a paper 'Composition of haemocyanin' by A B Griffiths30 March 1892
RR/12/21Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on a paper 'The variation of molecular surface-energy with temperature' by William Ramsay and John Shields17 May 1893
AP/71/9Unpublished paper, 'A possible explanation of the two-fold spectra of oxygen and nitrogen' by E C C [Edward Charles Cyril] Baly25 February 1895
PP/10/2Paper, 'Preliminary note on the continuity of the liquid and gaseous states of matter' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young1886
PP/10/28Paper, 'Clausius's formula for the change of state from liquid to gas applied to Messrs. Ramsay and Young's observations on alcohol' by George Francis Fitzgerald1887
PP/10/8Paper, 'On the thermodynamic properties of substances whose intrinsic equation is a linear function of the pressure and temperature' by George Francis Fitzgerald1887
PP/16/3Paper, 'Experiments on vapour-density' by Edgar Philip Perman1890
AP/67/4/1Unpublished manuscript, 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide. Part I: Gaseous ether' by W [William] Ramsay and E P [Edgar Philip] Perman1891
PP/17/21Paper, 'Some suggestions regarding solutions' by William Ramsay1891
PP/24/2Paper, 'Researches on modern explosives. Preliminary communication' by William Macnab and Emanuel Joseph Ristori1894
PP/24/15Paper, 'The molecular surface-energy of mixtures of non-associating liquids' by William Ramsay and Emily Aston1894
RR/10/79Second letter from William Ramsay, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young23 May 1887
RR/12/20Referee's report by Joseph John Thomson, on a paper 'The variation of molecular surface-energy with temperature' by William Ramsay and John Shields28 April 1893
RR/15/107Referee's report by William Augustus Tilden, on a paper 'Argon and its companions' by William Ramsay and Morris William Travers29 November 1900
RR/10/75Referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young25 March 1887
RR/10/78Letter from William Ramsay, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young14 May 1887
RR/10/80Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young15 June 1887
RR/12/368Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black. - Part I' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields9 August 1895
RR/13/97Referee's report by Arthur William Rucker, on a paper 'An attempt to determine the adiabatic relations of ethyl oxide' by E P Perman, William Ramsay and J. Rose-Innes1897
RR/15/108Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on a paper 'Argon and its companions' by William Ramsay and Morris William Travers16 December 1900
RR/12/395Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh13 February 1895
RR/12/396Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh18 February 1895
PP/24/13Paper, 'The molecular surface-energy of the esters, showing its variation with chemical constitution' by William Ramsay and Emily Aston1894
NLB/30/403Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society18 March 1905
MC/20/303Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison5 December 1905
NLB/16/874Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [Professor W] Ramsay24 June 1898
MC/23/310Letter from [Richard Bishop] Moore, Butler College, Indianapolis, USA, to Dr Robert Harrison, London, England22 September 1908
MC/23/372Letter from [William] Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, NW, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]14 June 1908
MC/23/373Letter from [William] Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, NW, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]16 July 1908
MC/23/370Letter from [William] Ramsay, University College, Gower Street, London, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]6 April 1908
MC/19/690Letter from William Ramsay, University College, London, Gower Street, to [Joseph] Larmor19 December 1904
MC/19/689Letter from William Ramsay, University College, London, Gower Street, to [Joseph] Larmor27 November 1904
MC/19/687Letter from William Ramsay, University College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison21 June 1904
MC/19/688Letter from William Ramsay, University College, London, Gower Street, to [Joseph] Larmor25 November 1904
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/25/192Letter from [William] Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]13 April 1910
NLB/42/154Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS14 April 1910
MC/25/193Letter from [William] Ramsay, University College, Gower Street, London, W.C, to [Joseph] Larmor26 May 1910
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/26/207Letter from [William] Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]12 February 1911
MC/26/209Letter from [William] Ramsay, University of London, University College, Gower Street, London, W.C, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]10 November 1911
MC/26/208Letter from [William] Ramsay, University of London, University College, Gower Street, London, W.C, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]30 December 1911
MC/20/301Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to Sir William [Huggins]6 July 1905
MC/27/279Letter from [William] Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]26 April 1912
MC/20/297Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison10 March 1905
MC/20/295Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison1 February 1905
MC/20/298Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison17 March 1905
MC/20/296Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison7 March 1905
MC/21/514Letter from [William] Ramsay, University College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison15 September 1906
MC/29/210Letter from William Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regents Park, N.W, to [John] Rose Bradford, [Royal Society]15 March 1914
MC/18Volume 18 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1903
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/20/300Letter from [William] Ramsay, Univeristy College, London, Gower Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison2 June 1905
NLB/51/752Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor John Cunningham McLennan FRS, c/o William Ramsay, Bowland, Stow, Midlothian17 June 1915
MC/30/155Letter from [William Henry] Power, Holly Lodge, East Molesey, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]13 December 1915
MC/30/154Letter from [William Henry] Power, Holly Lodge, East Molesey, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]9 December 1915
NLB/33/789Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society3 November 1906
MC/31/140Letter from Institut de France, Academie des Sciences, Paris, to the [Royal Society]15 September 1916
MC/31/211Letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]24 July 1916
MC/32/261Letter from William [Augustus] Tilden, The Oaks, Northwood, [Middlesex], to The Secretaries, Royal Society17 December 1917
MC/22/345Letter from [William] Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, to Sir Archibald [Geikie]19 March 1907
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