William Crookes

Date of Birth	17-June-1832
Place of Birth	London (England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Profession	Physicist, Chemist
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube. Crookes was the inventor of the Crookes radiometer, which today is made and sold as a novelty item.

Awards by William Crookes

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Copley Medal	(For his long-continued researches in spectroscopic chemistry, on electrical & mechanical phenomena in highly-rarefied gases, on radio-active phenomena, and other subjects.)