William Crookes
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title:
William Crookes
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Sir William Crookes was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875. This was a foundational discovery that eventually changed the whole of chemistry and physics. He is credited with discovering the element thallium, announced in 1861, with the help of spectroscopy. He was also the first to describe the spectrum of t
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British chemist and physicist (1832–1919)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crookes
date created:
2001-11-06T11:10:51Z
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2024-09-02T21:18:05Z
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