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 TBE PROOEESS OF SCIENCE

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minerals of helium, previously known <^ependetitl7 maiia nblch gave a new

only in the spectrum of the pun's chro- ilirectioa to modern physics. To Bam-

mosphcre. The use of licjuid air led to say belongs the remarkable triumph of

the discovery of three other elements of having united the n-ork on the inert

the same type, neon, krypton and zenon. gafea and on radium by demonstrating

Hamray not only discovered the group the genesis of helium from radium. Hii

of inert ga^es, but also described their further transformation of the elements monatoniic character and their position | has not been conGrmeii'. Ostwald, who

among the elements. nrote in 1912 a biographical sketch of

Two years after the announcement of Ramsay for Nature, finds him an apt

the discovery of argon, and at nearly e^iample of the ' ' romantic type, ' ' which

the same time as the discovery of helium he has contrasted with the classical

by Ramsay, Rontgen discovered the X- type. The investigator of the romantie

rays and Becquerel the rays of uranium, type makes errors as well aa striking

followed bf the discovery of radium by discoveries and proselytes.

the Curies. In the three great nations Ramsay's grandfather was president

«t the same time advances were in- of nbat is said to have been the first

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