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See also:RAMSAY, See also:SIR See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1852– ) , See also:British chemist, See also:nephew of Sir A. C. Ramsay, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow on the 2nd of See also:October 1852. From 1866 to 1876 he studied in his native See also:city, and then went to See also:work under R. See also:Fittig at See also:Tubingen. Returning to Glasgow in 1872 he became assistant in the See also:Young laboratory of technical See also:chemistry at See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson's See also:College, and from 1874 acted as tutorial assistant in chemistry at the university. In 18So he was appointed to the See also:chair of chemistry at University College, See also:Bristol, becoming See also:principal in the following See also:year, and in 1887 he succeeded A. W. See also:Williamson as See also:professor of chemistry at University College, See also:London. His earlier work was mainly concerned with organic chemistry, and he published researches on picoline and its derivatives in 1876–78 and on See also:quinine and its decomposition products in 1878–79. Later his See also:attention was taken up with questions of See also:physical and inorganic chemistry. With See also:Sydney Young and others he investigated the See also:critical See also:state and properties of liquids and the relationship between their vapour pressures and temperature, and with See also:John See also:Shields he applied measurements of the See also:surface tension of liquids to the determination of their molecular complexity. In 1894 he was associated with See also:Lord See also:Rayleigh in the See also:discovery of See also:argon, announced at that year's See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the British Association in See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and in the following year he found in certain rare minerals such as cleveite the See also:gas See also:helium which till that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time had only been known on spectroscopic See also:evidence as existing in the See also:sun. In 1898 his work with See also:Morris William Travers (b. 1872), who from 1894 had assisted him at University College, London, and in 1903 was appointed professor of chemistry at University College, Bristol, enabled him to announce the existence in the See also:atmosphere of three new gases, neon, krypton and xenon. Turning to the study of See also:radioactivity, he noticed its association with the minerals which yield helium, and in support of the See also:hypothesis that that gas is a disintegration-product of See also:radium he proved in 1903 that it is continuously formed by the latter substance in quantities sufficiently See also:great to be directly recognizable in the spectroscope. Among the books written by Sir William Ramsay, who was created K.C.B. in 1902, are A See also:System of Chemistry, 1891, The Gases of the Atmosphere, 1896, and See also:Modern Chemistry, vol. i. Theoretical, vol. ii.
End of Article: RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM (1852– )
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