William Crookes (nonfiction)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Sir William Crookes OM PRS (/krʊks/; 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry in London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875. In 1913, Crookes invented 100% ultraviolet blocking sunglass lens. Crookes was the inventor of the Crookes radiometer, which today is made and sold as a novelty item. Late in life, he became interested in spiritualism, and became the president of the Society for Psychical Research.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Crimes against chemical constants
- Crimes against physical constants
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Crookes tube (nonfiction)
- Geissler tube (nonfiction) - Predecessor to the Crookes tube
- Physics (nonfiction)
- Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (nonfiction) - Influenced
External links:
- William Crookes @ Wikipedia