About Morris Travers
Morris William Travers, FRS was an English chemist who worked with Sir William Ramsay in the discovery of xenon, neon and krypton. His work on several of the rare gases earned him the name Rare Gas Travers in scientific circles. He was the founding director of the Indian Institute of Science, prior to which he served as a professor of Chemistry at the University College, Bristol, predecessor institution of the University of Bristol, on the recommendations of Sir William Ramsay, former principal of the University College. Travers helped Ramsay to determine the properties of the newly discovered gases argon and helium. Travers continued his researches in cryogenics and made the first accurate temperature measurements of liquid gases. They examined the argon fraction for a constituent of lower boiling point, and discovered neon.
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