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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 91

Documents
William Ramsay
1914 (15 March) folio A.L.S. with printed address, written in German, to an unidentified professor, declining a request for a popular lecture, as he finds such events an increasingly heavy burden and prefers to do research rather than explain the same in popular lectures, "Es tut mir Leid Ihre schmeichelnde Anfrage verneinen zu müssen. Es ist für mich immer eine schwere Last einen populären Vortrag bereiten zu müssen; und ich finde es immer noch schwieriger. Sie müssen mich also entschuldigen dass ich mit Ihrer Bitte nicht einfalle. Ich möchte mich mit Untersuchungen beschäftigen, lieber als mit deren Erklärung durch populäre Vorträge ...". and signed "Wiliam Ramsay". Clean and fine. Photo

Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS, FRSE (1852 – 1916) 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 elements in air" (along with his collaborator, Lord Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for their discovery 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

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