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Essay gives a biography of the life and accomplishments of Sir William Crooks.
Sir William Crookes was a British chemist and a British physicist. He discovered the chemical element thallium and determined its atomic weight. He also made many devices that were widely used in scientific research for many years.
During the 1870's, Crookes constructed a vacuum tube for the study of a form of radiation that came to be called later cathode rays. The vacuum tube which became known as the Crookes tube, contributed to the construction of.....
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