William Crookes

Sir William Crookes, OM

Order of Merit

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, FRS was an English

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chemist

Chemist

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and physicist

Physicist

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. Sir William attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London

London

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, and worked on spectroscopy

Spectroscopy

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. In 1861, Crookes discovered a previously unknown element with a bright green emission line in its spectrum and named the element thallium

Thallium

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, from the Greek thallos, a green shoot.

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1832 Born

1919 Died

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Sir William Crookes, OM