The Ramsay Memorial Fellowships were instituted in 1920 as a memorial to Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916). The Fellowships are offered to postdoctoral chemists who already have some postdoctoral experience of research but who are in the early stages of their career, so that they may initiate a programme of original and independent research. Sir William Ramsay was a Professor of Inorganic and General Chemistry at UCL from 1887-1913 and Britain's very first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in 1904, for his discovery of the noble gases. He was also SCI President from 1903 to 1904.Established 1920
| Applications open | 1 August |
| Applications close | 15 November |
| Frequency | Annually |
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Professor David Phillips CBE, FRS was elected as Chairman of the Trustees for a term of three years at the annual meeting of the Trustees on 19 July 2018. Professor Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at Imperial College London and was formerly President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010-12.
