Morris Travers

Morris William Travers ( born January 24, 1872 in London, † August 25 1961 in Stroud ) was an English chemist.

He studied chemistry at University College, where he became professor in 1903. From 1906 he was in Bangalore, the first director of the newly established Indian Institute of Sciences. With the beginning of World War II, he returned to England and was employed in the chemical industry.

Together with William Ramsay, he discovered in the years 1894-1908, the noble gases neon, krypton and xenon. The discovery was made by fractional distillation of liquid air.