Neon su otkrili britanski kemičari Sir William Ramsay i Morris W. Travers u Londonu 1898. godine.<br><br>Otkriven je kad je Ramsay ohladio uzorak zraka dok nije postao tekućina, zatim ugrijao tekućinu i skupljao plinove kako su isparavali.<br><br>Nakon 1902., kompanija Georgesa Claudea, Air liquide, je proizvodila industrijske količine neona kao nusprodukt njegovog posla likvefakcije zraka.
Neon was discovered in 1898 by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers in London.<br><br>It was discovered when Ramsay chilled a sample of air until it became a liquid, then warmed the liquid and captured the gases as they boiled off.<br><br>After 1902, Georges Claude's company, Air Liquide, was producing industrial quantities of neon as a byproduct of his air liquefaction business.