Documentary
- Duration: 6 mins
- Publication date: 16 Sep 2022
Abstract
Sir William Crookes is most noted for his discovery of thallium and his research in cathode rays. He was an exceptional experimentalist, a laborious researcher and meticulous observer. Crookes was considered remarkable for his industriousness and for his intellectual qualities, and his discoveries were foundational, changing chemistry and physics as a whole.
- Keywords:
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- British Association
- Crookes dark space
- English scientist
- Government advisory
- Royal Society of London
- anode
- famous mediums
- iet
- meta elements
- open-minded scientist
- pioneering scientist
- research in spectroscopy
- royal college of chemistry
- scientific ideas
- spectroscopic methods
- thallium
- the Chemical Society
- the study of radioactive materials
- william crookes
