age ~84
from Ann Arbor, MI
…Many other scientists tried to replicate his experiments. Sir William Crookes claimed success in 1909.[6] Otto Ruff claimed in 1917 to have produced diamonds up to 7mm in diameter,[7] but later retracted his statement.[8] In 1926, Dr. J.Willard Hershey of McPherson College replicated Moissan...
…[125][129] Among other prominent 19th-century intellectuals involved with spiritualism were the social reformer Robert Owen, who was one of Wallace's early idols,[131] the physicists William Crookes and Lord Rayleigh, the mathematician Augustus De Morgan, and the Scottish publisher Robert Ch...
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 4 April 1919) was a chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, in London, and worked on spectroscopy.
Author
William Crookes
ISBN #
0800820401