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If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why,...

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William Crookes

Chemist

Born: 1832-06-17

Died: 1919-04-04

Sir William Crookes (June 17, 1832 – April 4, 1919) was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer in the development of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube, and was controversial in his advocacy of research into psychic abilities and other paranormal phenomena.More