Ramsay Laboratory

The Sir William Ramsay Laboratories of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry,... 

The spectroscopy of NO3 has been reviewed by Wayne et al. (1991). The absorption spectrum of this radical (see Figure 4.45) exhibits several predissociating bands first observed in 1962 by Ramsay. Laboratory studies reviewed by Johnston et al. (1996) provided quantitative values of the photodissociation parameters. The quantum efficiency for each of the two possible pathways... 

INSTITUTE FOB PURE AND APPLIED PHYSICAL PROBLEMS, DEPARTMENTS OF CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO (LA JOLLa), AND WILLIAM RAMSAY AND RALPH FORSTER LABORATORIES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON... 

Noting that the written record should be intelligibly prepared so that others may benefit from its study (26), Crowley urged readers to examine a sample from an advanced student published in the same issue of The Equinox. He boldly asserted that the more scientific the record is, the better (26). He also cautioned that The A.A. will not take official notice of any experiments which are not thus properly recorded (25). The vision of scientific method that Crowley expressed in The Equinox would certainly have conformed to his own education in scientific research under Ramsay and Collie at London and at Cambridge. For Crowley, scientific illuminism would be characterized by meticulous and objective record keeping of laboratory experiments, a concern about possible sources of error, the broader research community s access to other scientists research results, and the sanctioning of practices by an authorizing body. 

Yet Muir s friend Sir William Ramsay—a far more accomplished scientist than Muir, and one of the most proficient laboratory researchers of his era—was much more engaged by the possibility that alchemy might offer insight into the goals and consequences of modem science. As we have seen, Ramsay was a member of the Society for Psychical Research, and he was deeply steeped in alchemical and Hermetic texts. His own chemistry pedagogy made room for alchemical history in his university classrooms in a way that had not been the case in the classes he had taken as a young man. 

D. P. CRAIG, William Ramsay and Ralph Forster Laboratories, University College, London, England... 

Another researcher in Ramsay s group at UCL was Katherine Alice Burke.10 Bom in Surrey about 1875, Burke obtained her B.Sc. (London) degree from studies at Bedford College and later Birkbeck College, a small college emphasising technical and vocational subjects. Upon completion of a B.Sc. in 1899, she transferred to UCL to work in Ramsay s laboratory under Frederick Donnan.11 Burke had two publications with Donnan and one with Edward Charles Cyril Baly.12 In addition, she... 

Robin Rogers is Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Green Manufacturing at The University of Alabama (USA). He is also Chair in Green Chemistry and the Director of the Queen s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories at the Queen s University of Belfast (UK). 

The name comes from the Greek xenon, meaning stranger. Xenon was discovered by William Ramsay (1852-1916) and Morris W. Travers (1872-1961) in 1898 as part of their search for a noble gas between helium and argon. It is present as a trace element in atmospheric air. It is the heaviest of the noble gases. It is used commercially in specialty lamps and lasers, as well as in sophisticated laboratory equipment such as bubble chambers and as a radioactive isotope used as a tracer. 

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