William Ramsay
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay KCB, FRS, FRSEwas 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". 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...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth2 October 1852
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It's hard to say we had been thinking about this sort of problem. The traditional supply disruption you think about is a political one, like the 1973-1974 embargo. Here, you had a situation where a local refining problem could become a global one.
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It's not an easy topic because it gets at some fairly delicate issues. The source of some of the smuggling, who's involved, means it is probably not that easy a topic to tackle.
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The U.S. can't isolate itself from global markets so whether it buys its oil from the Middle East or not it will be exposed to the same supply conditions of the market and the same price conditions of any other importer.
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Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.