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William Ramsay

Scottish chemist1852 to 1916

Wikidata names Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig

Students on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Morris Travers
born 1872

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataWilhelm Rudolph Fittig
2 steps up
stated by WikidataHeinrich Limpricht
3 steps up
stated by WikidataFriedrich Wöhler
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJöns Jacob Berzeliusstated by WikidataLeopold Gmelin

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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1868 to 1871
University of Glasgow
studied
1871 to 1872
University of Tübingen
studied
1878
University of Tübingen
studied
undated
The Glasgow Academy
studied
undated
University College London
worked
undated
University of Strathclyde
worked
undated
University of Bristol
worked
undated
University of Glasgow
worked

At a glance

known as: chemist, professor, historian, archaeologist
fields: chemistry
awards: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Leconte Prize, 1895, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1904, Elliott Cresson Medal, 1913, Matteucci Medal, 1907, honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, 1900, August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal, 1903, Davy Medal, 1895, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Pour le Mérite, Longstaff Prize, 1897, Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science, 1895, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1904
member of: Royal Society of London, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, from 1904, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1897, American Philosophical Society, from 1899, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1907
Wikipedia: in 93 languages

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Elsewhere6

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaWilliam Ramsay
stated by WikidataWikidataQ950726
stated by WikidataVIAF61643201
stated by WikidataGND118787810
stated by WikidataIdRef033667519
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109075074

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@misc{academicancestry_Q950726,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{William Ramsay: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q950726},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). William Ramsay: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q950726