William Crookes
1832 - 1919
- Born
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17 June 1832
143 Regent Street, London, England
- Died
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04/04/1919
7 Kensington Park Gardens, London, England
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 04/06/1863
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 31
- Occupation
- Chemist and science journalist
- Relationships
- Parents: Joseph Crookes (1792–1884), a tailor from Yorkshire, and his second wife, Mary Scott of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire. Spouse: Ellen, daughter of William Humphrey of Darlington (1856)
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Paper, 'On the photography of the Moon' by William Crookes
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: AP/39/10 -
Paper, 'On radiant matter spectroscopy: Note on the spectra of erbia' by William Crookes
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: PP/8/6 -
Paper, 'On radiant matter spectroscopy: Note on the earth Yα' by William Crookes
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: PP/8/14 -
Paper, 'On some new elements in gadolinite and samarskite, detected spectroscopically' by William Crookes
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: PP/8/34 -
Paper, 'On the crimson line of phosphorescent alumina' by William Crookes
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: PP/10/6 -
Paper, 'On radiant matter spectroscopy:—Examination of the residual glow' by William Crookes
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: PP/10/13
Referee of
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Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'Action of free molecules on radiant heat, and its conversion thereby into sound' by John Tyndall
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: RR/9/95 -
Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'The coefficient of viscosity of air' by Herbert Tomlinson
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: RR/9/404 -
Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'Researches in the chemistry of selenic acid and other selenium compounds' by Charles A Cameron and John Macallan
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: RR/10/249 -
Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'A possible explanation of the two-fold spectra of oxygen and nitrogen' by Edward Charles Cyril Baly
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: RR/12/270 -
Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'Flame spectra observed at Swedish Bessemer works' by C J Lundström and Walter Noel Hartley
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: RR/12/352 -
Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'On the spectrum of cyanogen as produced and modified by spark discharges' by Walter Noel Hartley
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: RR/13/39
Recipient of
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Letter, from William Crookes to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Mornington Road
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: HS/5/305 -
Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Crookes, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/5/306 -
Letter, from William Crookes to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Mornington Road
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: HS/5/307 -
Incomplete letter, from William Crookes to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Mornington Road
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: HS/5/308 -
Letter, from William Crookes to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Mornington Road
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: HS/5/309 -
Letter, from William Crookes to Sir John Herschel, dated at 20 Mornington Road
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: HS/5/310
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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