William Crookes (nonfiction)

Sir William Crookes in 1906

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.

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