Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers founded neon in 1898, by experimenting on liquid air. Prior to discovering neon they had recently found krypton, then later on they would go to discover xenon. “ Ramsay knew that sometimes one element could stay hidden behind another element (Stewart www.chemicool.com/elements/neon.html).” Neon was actually named by Ramsay’s son and was named neon after greek words neos (which means new). After Ramsay and Travers were able to keep finding neon it opened up a path for French scientist Georges Claude to come in and say the noble gases can actually produce light. That was when the first neon sign was born. The main year of the discovery of neon was 1898 by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers. Also
