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Notes - Nature
In his presidential address, which was read in his absence, Sir William Crookes said that the world is still greatly in need of able ...
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The Wheat Problem - Nature
THIS essay by Sir William Crookes, as will be remembered, called forth much criticism when it was delivered as the Presidential Address ...
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The Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill - Nature
Armstrong, and Dr. G. J. Stoney, who spoke in relation to the question; Sir F. Bramwell, Sir F. Abel, Sir Norman Lockyer, Sir William Crookes< ...
Methods of Improving Visibility - Nature
THE observations of Prof. C. V. Raman (NATURE, October 20, p. 242) on a method of improving the visibility of distant objects by the elimination of reflected light by means of a Nicol's prism ...
A New Heat-absorbing and Heat-resisting Glass - Nature
All our ordinary sources of white light radiate a large amount of energy at 'infra-red' frequencies, and a material such as a film placed in the image of a strong source may readily absorb this ...
Mercury Bubbles - Nature
Then, in order to keep, the whole in a state of agitation, I carried a tube through one neck to the bottom of the bottle and attached a short tube to the other neck connected with a filter pump ...
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British chemist and physicist
Sir William Crookes OM FRS was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. Wikipedia