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1. Morris Travers

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   Discovery of the Noble Gases
   In 1898, Ramsay and Travers embarked on a highly ambitious project: the isolation of minute quantities of inert components remaining after the liquefaction and fractional distillation of atmospheric air. The conventional wisdom at the time suggested that the known atmospheric constituents (Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon) accounted for the vast majority of air composition, leaving littl…