biography
| name: |
Crookes, Sir William
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| male
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| lived:
| (1832–1919)
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| biography:
| Chemist and physicist, born in London, UK. He studied at London, then superintended the meteorological department of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, and from 1855 lectured on chemistry at Chester. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News, and edited it until 1906. He was an authority on sanitation, discovered the metal thallium (1861), improved vacuum tubes and promoted electric lighting, and invented the radiometer (1873–6). He was knighted in 1897. |
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