Crookes (disambiguation)
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Crookes may refer to:
- CrookesCrookesCrookes ward—which includes the districts of Crookes, Steelbank, Crosspool, and Sandygate —is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the western part of the city and covers an area of 3.9 km2...
, a suburb of Sheffield, England; also:- Crookes (ward), an electoral ward in Sheffield, England
- Crookes CemeteryCrookes CemeteryCrookes Cemetery is a cemetery between Crosspool and Crookes in the city of Sheffield, England. It was opened in 1906, and covers .The cemetery's chapel was Grade II listed on 12 December 1995. Over 29,000 burials have taken place since its opening...
, a cemetery in Sheffield - Crookes Valley ParkCrookes Valley ParkCrookes Valley Park is an area of public parkland in the Crookesmoor area of the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. The park lies just under two kilometres west of the City centre at...
, a public park in Sheffield
- Derek CrookesDerek CrookesDerek Norman Crookes in Mariannhill, Natal is a former South African cricketer and played 32 One Day Internationals for South Africa from 1994 to 2000. In domestic cricket he played for Natal, Gauteng, Easterns and the Highveld Lions....
(born 1969), South African cricketer - Jason CrookesJason CrookesJason Crookes is a rugby league player for Bradford Bulls. His position is outside back.-Bradford Bulls:Jason Crookes signed for the Bulls in 2007 from Newsome Panthers...
(born 1990), English rugby league player - Ralph CrookesRalph CrookesRalph Crookes was an English first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire in 1879 against Kent, at Mote Park, Maidstone....
(1846–1897), English cricketer - William CrookesWilliam CrookesSir William Crookes, OM, FRS was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy...
(1832–1919), English chemist and physicist - Crookes (crater)Crookes (crater)Crookes is a lunar impact crater that lies on the Moon's far side as seen from the Earth. It lies just to the southwest of the giant crater Korolev. To the southwest of Crookes is McKellar....
, a lunar crater - The CrookesThe Crookes-History:The band formed in 2008, naming themselves after the suburb Crookes in Sheffield, where the guitarists Alex Saunders and Daniel Hopewell met before later recruiting George Waite on vocals and Russell Bates on drums....
, a pop music band - Crookes tubeCrookes tubeA Crookes tube is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869-1875, in which cathode rays, that is electrons, were discovered....
, an experimental electrical discharge tube - Crookes radiometerCrookes radiometerThe Crookes radiometer, also known as the light mill, consists of an airtight glass bulb, containing a partial vacuum. Inside are a set of vanes which are mounted on a spindle. The vanes rotate when exposed to light, with faster rotation for more intense light, providing a quantitative measurement...